Dr. Sheryl Spithoff is a family doctor and Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto, and the director of the Health Tech and Society Lab at Women’s College Hospital.
In May, Ontario’s Auditor General released a special report on the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the Ontario government, including medical “AI scribes” that are increasingly being used by doctors, including us. While headlines and coverage focused mainly on so-called scribe hallucinations of these AI note-taking systems, that wasn’t the biggest news in the report.
byDanyaal RazaSheryl SpithoffBrigid GoulemGaibrie Stephen
An emerging model is quietly turning Canadian patient medical records, and patients themselves, into lucrative commercial assets – often without patients' explicit knowledge or consent.
Non-profit virtual care has the most potential to not only improve health outcomes but promote health system sustainability. It's time for governments to protect virtual care that supports everyone.