RBfracture
RBfracture is a CE-marked medical device that automatically flags fractures, dislocations, joint effusions and lipohaemarthrosis on X-rays, supporting emergency and radiology teams with worklist prioritisation and a visual summary report inside their existing PACS.
What is RBfracture?
RBfracture is a Software as a Medical Device developed by Radiobotics ApS in Copenhagen and intended exclusively for healthcare professionals. It is a computer-assisted detection and diagnosis tool that reviews trauma skeletal radiographs alongside the clinician, surfacing findings that are easy to miss under emergency-department pressure. The vendor is explicit on two points: the software is not available for purchase by the general public, and it is not intended to replace clinical judgement or to serve as the sole basis for a diagnosis or a treatment decision.
The software reads plain X-rays and flags four families of findings. Fractures are detected across the entire appendicular skeleton, covering hip, pelvis, femur, knee, crus, hand, wrist, fingers, elbow, humerus, foot, ankle, toes, forearm, shoulder and ribs, as well as the thoracic and lumbar spine. Dislocations are covered at the shoulder, elbow, wrist, hand and fingers, pelvis and hips, knee, ankle, and foot and toes. The tool also detects joint effusions in elbows and knees, and lipohaemarthrosis in knees, which typically signals an intra-articular fracture. Both paediatric and adult imaging are supported.
Two outputs sit on top of the detection itself. RBfracture can prioritise the reading worklist by writing configurable DICOM tags and wording into the PACS, so flagged studies surface sooner. It also generates a visual summary report with thumbnails and a red-dot indicator, letting a reader see at a glance which examinations carry a suspected finding.
Radiobotics publishes the figures behind its claims: 94% accuracy, specificity and sensitivity, a median processing time of 13 seconds per examination, and an 86% reduction in the missed-fracture rate. The model was trained on emergency data from more than 1,300 hospitals worldwide. The case studies are named rather than anonymous. Kettering General Hospital, an NHS district hospital, reported 94% accuracy and specificity and an 86% fall in missed fractures, while the teleradiology provider One Laudos reported 97% accuracy and sensitivity, 96% specificity and an 88% reduction. RBfracture is a Class IIa device CE marked under EU MDR 2017/745, assessed by TÜV SÜD (CE 0123).
What it does
- Detect fractures on X-rays across the whole appendicular skeleton and the thoracic and lumbar spine
- Detect dislocations at the shoulder, elbow, wrist, hand and fingers, pelvis and hips, knee, ankle and foot
- Detect joint effusions in elbows and knees, and lipohaemarthrosis in knees
- Prioritise the reading worklist inside the PACS using configurable DICOM tags and wording
- Produce a visual summary report with thumbnails and a red-dot indicator
- Support both paediatric and adult imaging
- Return results in a median of 13 seconds per examination
When to use RBfracture / When not to
A quick filter to help you decide if RBfracture is the right fit.
When to use RBfracture
- Emergency departments handling high trauma volumes, where fractures are read under time pressure
- Radiology departments working short-staffed and looking to cut the missed-fracture rate
- Reporting radiographers who read and report plain films themselves
- Hospital imaging IT teams that already run a PACS or a third-party AI platform and want to add detection without a new workflow
- Teleradiology providers reading trauma studies remotely across sites
When not to use RBfracture
- Members of the public: the vendor states RBfracture is not available for purchase by the general public
- Anyone looking for autonomous diagnosis, since the software is decision support and the clinician makes the final call
- Teams working from CT, MRI or ultrasound, as RBfracture reads plain radiographs only
- Buyers in the United States, Japan, Mexico or South Korea, where registration is still listed as in progress
- Organisations that need a published price before engaging, as no rate card exists and everything goes through the sales team
How to use RBfracture
A typical end-to-end flow, from setup to results.
- Decide which route you need: the free web demo to evaluate the software, or a commercial deployment through the sales team
- For the demo, complete the form on the demo page with your name, work email, job title and organisation
- Wait for the request to be reviewed: each demo application is checked individually by the Radiobotics team
- Open the demo link sent to your email address
- Upload your own cases in DICOM, JPEG or PNG format and review the outputs, keeping the results internal
- For a clinical deployment, contact the sales team to discuss the customer agreement and confirm availability in your country
- Choose one of three installation options: the Radiobotics cloud, an existing partner AI platform, or a local install
- For the cloud route, expect the chain X-ray imaging to PACS to workstation to gateway, with pseudonymised data sent over HTTPS/TLS
- For the local route, plan for analysis to run on a CPU inside the hospital, with the DICOM protocol left intact
- Configure the DICOM tags and wording used for worklist prioritisation, and download the Instructions for Use for your version
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Class IIa medical device CE marked under EU MDR 2017/745, assessed by TÜV SÜD (CE 0123), with the certificate published as a PDF
- Clinical results are quantified and attributed: 94% accuracy at Kettering General Hospital with an 86% fall in missed fractures, 97% accuracy at One Laudos with an 88% reduction
- Approved for NHS use by NICE (HTE20, 2025), alongside published peer-reviewed literature and named case studies
- Unusually transparent regulatory page, naming the notified body, the ARTG number, the ANVISA registration and the market-by-market approval status with version numbers
- Vendor-level certifications published: ISO 13485 (2025) and Cyber Essentials (2025)
- A local installation option keeps image analysis inside the hospital, on a CPU, with the DICOM protocol intact
- A free web demo lets clinicians test the software on their own images before any commitment
Cons
- No price is published anywhere: there is no pricing page at all, and every commercial question goes through the sales team
- No product API and no API documentation; integration is through PACS, DICOM and partner platforms only
- The privacy policy still carries an effective date of 13 May 2023, three years older than the terms of service and the regulatory page
- No hosting country or region is disclosed, and the cloud provider is not even named
- No subprocessor list is published and no Data Processing Agreement is mentioned
- No documented way for a customer to exclude their data from model training; the only opt-out on the site concerns marketing email
- The site contradicts itself on its own identity: the regulatory page writes the legal name as Radiobotics APS while the terms and the footer write Radiobotics ApS, and on the contact page one email link points to support@radiobotics.com while displaying info@radiobotics.com
Pricing & Plans
No price is published. Radiobotics operates no pricing page, an absence confirmed against the site's full sitemap, and no amount, tier or billing unit appears anywhere on the site. RBfracture is not sold to the general public: commercial terms are set in a separate customer agreement and prospective buyers are directed to the sales team. A free web-based demonstration is available on request, but the vendor frames it strictly as a demonstration for internal use rather than as a commercial trial. There is therefore neither a permanent free plan nor an entry-level paid price to report.
Data, GDPR & hosting
A consolidated view of how RBfracture handles your data.
GDPR overview
Radiobotics lists GDPR among its published certifications, and its terms name Regulation (EU) 2016/679 explicitly, alongside the California Consumer Privacy Act, as applicable data protection law. The privacy policy enumerates the full set of data-subject rights: access, restriction, rectification, erasure, withdrawal of consent, objection and portability. Transfers outside the EU rely on the European Commission's standard contractual clauses or equivalent safeguards, and breach notification to affected parties and authorities is provided for. As the company is established in Denmark, no Article 27 representative is required and none is designated. Two gaps stand out: no data protection officer is named and no dedicated privacy address is published, so requests go through the generic contact form; and the policy still carries an effective date of 13 May 2023, three years older than the terms of service.
Who owns the data?
The demo terms are explicit that the customer keeps ownership: you retain all right, title and interest in the intellectual property in Your Data, understood as personal information, while Radiobotics owns and retains all intellectual property in the Services themselves. The vendor reserves a broad right to collect, use and analyse customer data in aggregated form to improve the quality of its services, on condition that no individual is identified and no personal data is published. One asymmetry deserves attention: any question, comment, suggestion or idea sent to Radiobotics may be used and disclosed without restriction and free of charge. In the privacy policy Radiobotics acts as controller, but describes itself as a processor for some services.
Reuse rights
Reuse of the tool's output is restricted rather than free. Demonstration results are for internal use only: publishing them in any public, news, academic, commercial, competitive or comparative setting requires Radiobotics' explicit prior written approval, a restriction repeated both in the terms and on the demo page itself. Users must not copy, upload, download or share content they have no right to. The licence granted is limited, revocable, personal, non-exclusive and non-transferable, and covers access to the site for the purpose of using the service; reverse engineering, sublicensing, redistribution and derivative works are expressly prohibited. Clinical use is governed by a separate customer agreement rather than by these demo terms.
Data retention & training
Hosting summary
Radiobotics does not disclose where data is hosted. No hosting country and no hosting region are named anywhere on the site, and the cloud provider itself is not identified; the terms mention it only in passing, stating that the cloud hosting provider will be asked to access data solely if the platform is down or experiencing server issues. What the vendor does describe is the architecture. In the cloud option, data is pseudonymised and sent over an encrypted HTTPS/TLS connection to the Radiobotics cloud, along the chain from X-ray imaging to PACS to workstation to gateway. In the local option, analysis runs on a CPU inside the hospital, so images need not leave the site at all. The privacy policy adds only that personal data is stored on systems in controlled facilities accessible to a limited number of people on a need-to-know basis, and that transfers outside the EU are covered by standard contractual clauses. Hospitals with data residency obligations should raise this directly with the vendor.
Where RBfracture works
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Things to keep in mind
Risks and trade-offs to weigh before adopting RBfracture.
- Automation bias is the central risk: a reader who comes to trust the red dot may look less carefully at studies the software has not flagged, and no detection tool is perfect
- Deskilling over time, particularly for trainees who learn to read trauma films with the AI already in place rather than without it
- The demo platform is explicitly not the clinical product and must not be used for diagnosis or treatment decisions, which is easy to forget once results look convincing
- Availability is conditional: outside the approved markets, deployment depends on local regulatory clearance, and the software version supplied varies by country from 2.1 to 2.6
- Local requirements may add steps such as notifying authorities, translating the Instructions for Use, or completing a local registration before RBfracture may be used or sold
- Data governance is under-documented: with no hosting location, no named cloud provider, no subprocessor list and no mention of a DPA, a hospital's own DPO will have questions the site cannot answer
- Ownership continuity: the strategic merger with Medimaps Group announced on 2 March 2026 was still subject to Danish foreign direct investment approval, so contractual counterparties may change
Setup & Integrations
Technical difficulty
Two very different levels. Trying the demo is easy: a form, a manual review of your request, an emailed link, then upload images in DICOM, JPEG or PNG. A clinical deployment is an integration project. It assumes an existing PACS and DICOM chain, and follows one of three routes: the Radiobotics cloud through a gateway, an AI platform the hospital already runs, or a local install on a hospital CPU. Radiobotics describes the process as quick setup with minimal requirements, but it still requires imaging IT involvement, plus configuration of the DICOM tags used for worklist prioritisation.
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Frequently asked questions
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Should you pick RBfracture?
RBfracture is one of the better-documented AI tools in musculoskeletal imaging, and the evidence trail is its strongest argument. It is a Class IIa device CE marked under EU MDR 2017/745 with a named notified body, it has been approved for NHS use by NICE, it carries ISO 13485 and Cyber Essentials certificates published as downloadable PDFs, and its performance claims are tied to named hospitals rather than to anonymous benchmarks. Its regulatory page goes further than most vendors bother to, listing registration numbers, approved markets and the software version available in each one. For an emergency or radiology department weighing a purchase, that is a great deal of verifiable material.
The reservations are mostly about what is not published. There is no price of any kind, so budgeting requires a sales conversation. There is no product API. More importantly for a hospital procurement team, the vendor does not disclose where data is hosted, does not name its cloud provider, publishes no subprocessor list and mentions no Data Processing Agreement, and its privacy policy is three years older than its terms of service. The local installation option partly answers those concerns by keeping analysis inside the hospital, and is worth considering for that reason alone.
Two other things deserve a check before signing. Availability is genuinely constrained: outside roughly forty approved markets, deployment depends on local clearance, and the United States, Japan, Mexico and South Korea are still listed as in progress. And a merger with Medimaps Group was announced on 2 March 2026, with closing still subject to Danish foreign investment approval, so questions about roadmap and support continuity are fair to raise. Used as intended, as decision support with a clinician making the final call, RBfracture is a credible and well-evidenced option.
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