In July 2019 NHS Grampian launched their first SBRI competition in collaboration with the Chief Scientists Office, Opportunity North East (ONE), Canon Medical Research Europe, the University of Aberdeen and ICAIRD to develop artificial intelligence (AI) solutions to support fracture diagnosis in hospitals.

Following rigorous selection process five development companies were entered into a 3 month phase 1 stage where they worked with anonymised patient data from the Grampian Data Safe Haven to create algorithms. Results from the project’s first phase exceeded expectations and two companies – SeeAI and Bering Ltd – were successful in their application to proceed into phase 2 of the SBRI process and went on to develop and test their prototype solutions over the following twelve months.