02/09/2026
Ask a chain's clinical director about screening quality and they'll tell you about their best store.
Ask about the twelfth-best. The conversation changes.
Variance is the real problem in a network. Not whether screening can be done well. It clearly can! Whether it's done the same way in Aarhus on a Tuesday and in Milan on a Saturday. By someone three weeks into the job. At five o'clock, when it's been a long day.
Chains don't lose on their ceiling. They lose on their floor.
That's the argument for automating the read rather than the capture. When the analysis takes 45 seconds and comes back the same every time, your variable is the image, not the interpretation. And image quality is a training problem. You can manage that.
Across 7 million screenings, consistency is what multi-site groups actually raise with us. More than accuracy.
It changes the commercial picture too. Screening stops being something your strongest practitioners offer and becomes something the network does. That's the version that shows up in a P&L.
If you run multi-site: what's the spread between your best and worst store? And do you measure it?