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Emergency triage system: two routes to high risk

A hospital uses AI to prioritise incoming patients at the emergency department. The question is not whether the system is high-risk but by which route: as a medical device under product legislation, or directly under Annex III.

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Identifier: praxikon:eu:ai-act:example:example-triage-spoedeisende-hulp
Payload hash (sha256): 62d16510c753780018aa9840884d802dfdc1b68e969a525fc0d205fdd486c3f3

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Praxikon, "Emergency triage system: two routes to high risk", praxikon:eu:ai-act:example:example-triage-spoedeisende-hulp@1.0.0, dataset praxikon:sys:registry:dataset:ai-act-implementation-graph 2.1.0 (schema 1.4.0), effective_at 2026-08-08T00:00:00.000Z, known_at 2026-08-14T00:00:00.000Z, sha256 62d16510c753780018aa9840884d802dfdc1b68e969a525fc0d205fdd486c3f3

Version: 1.0.0
Legal time (effective_at): 19 May 2026
Knowledge time (known_at): 8 August 2026
Closed on: Not closed
Topics: examples

Review status: Placed against the official source (8 August 2026). Next check due by 4 February 2027. The check date is the knowledge date of this version; no later recheck has been recorded.

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Source
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- Draft guidelines on the classification of high-risk AI systems
  Locator: Draft guidelines on high-risk AI classification, 19 May 2026, annex on Annex III, paragraphs (334) and (335)
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:commission-draft-high-risk-classification-guidelines
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- ObligationAnnex III: high-risk AI
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:obligation:annex-iii-high-risk

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Source
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- Draft guidelines on the classification of high-risk AI systems
  Locator: Draft guidelines on high-risk AI classification, 19 May 2026, annex on Annex III, paragraphs (334) and (335)
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:commission-draft-high-risk-classification-guidelines
  Open official source
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Consequence
- ActorDeployer
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:actor:deployer
- ActorProvider of an AI system
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:actor:provider

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The Commission draft guidelines of 19 May 2026 state that an emergency healthcare patient triage system may qualify as a medical device; where it then meets Article 6(1), it is high-risk via Annex I and sectoral rules apply. A triage system that is not a medical device is high-risk via Article 6(2) and point 5(d) of Annex III. The document is a consultation version: non-binding and not yet final.
- Locator: Draft guidelines on high-risk AI classification, 19 May 2026, annex on Annex III, paragraphs (334) and (335)praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:commission-draft-high-risk-classification-guidelinesOpen official source

Our interpretation

Our own reading. It can change without the law changing, and it is not the position of a supervisory authority.

First establish whether your triage system is a medical device, because that question decides the whole route: via Annex I the assessment travels with the medical conformity assessment and its date, via Annex III the separate timeline of Article 6(2) applies. Either way the outcome is high-risk, so postponing that determination only creates uncertainty about which regime to set up.
- Locator: Draft guidelines on high-risk AI classification, 19 May 2026, annex on Annex III, paragraphs (334) and (335)praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:commission-draft-high-risk-classification-guidelinesOpen official source

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Reference

Praxikon, "Emergency triage system: two routes to high risk",
praxikon:eu:ai-act:example:example-triage-spoedeisende-hulp@1.0.0,
dataset praxikon:sys:registry:dataset:ai-act-implementation-graph 2.1.0 (schema 1.4.0),
effective_at 2026-05-19T00:00:00.000Z, known_at 2026-08-08T00:00:00.000Z,
sha256 62d16510c753780018aa9840884d802dfdc1b68e969a525fc0d205fdd486c3f3,
https://www.praxikon.com/en/verkenner/example/example-triage-spoedeisende-hulp
(https://www.praxikon.com/api/v1/entities?id=praxikon%3Aeu%3Aai-act%3Aexample%3Aexample-triage-spoedeisende-hulp&effective_at=2026-05-19&known_at=2026-08-08&lang=en, accessed 2026-08-25)

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praxikon:eu:ai-act:example:example-triage-spoedeisende-hulp@1.0.0 (sha256 62d16510)

BibTeX

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  howpublished = {AI Act Change \& Evidence Graph, dataset 2.1.0, schema 1.4.0},
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  url          = {https://www.praxikon.com/en/verkenner/example/example-triage-spoedeisende-hulp},
  urldate      = {2026-08-25},
  language     = {en}
}

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