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Hi Carl, Thanks for your message. You have hit upon one of the critical issues for certain AI applications in primary care, but more broadly in health care. We are living in an age of data informed medicine, but as you noted, if our foundation or bedrock of high quality data is not yet there, how can AI-driven tools be applied most meaningfully ? Can AI tools in primary care simultaneously reduce physicians’ admin burden and improve data quality ? All to be determined, with many innovative minds exploring this rapidly changing field. With our partners CIHI and Health Canada, Infoway’s efforts on standards-driven interoperability and data portability should help to solidify our data foundation over time. Stay tuned…
Very well written papers, thanks for passing them on! The parts of the AI Working Group paper that speak to data access and integrity hit home with me. "Participant's were, however, optimistic that with improved funding, a focus on FM values and functions, teamwork, and data, AI will improve FM practice and care delivery" and action item number 3 that states "support existing initiatives related to developing high-quality primary care data sets suitable for AI", for example. This deserve further emphasis. It is lovely to see excitement and awareness of AI and related technologies amongst physicians and amongst the general public. However, what is missing from the current conversation is that fact that you can't train, validate, deploy, or maintain a ML or AI model unless you have an absolute solid bedrock of existing data underneath them. And unfortunately, we do not have a bedrock. Developing high quality data - be it primary or otherwise - is a necessary first step to being able to utilize these technologies and should be a strategic priority.

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I want to highlight a very interesting March 2024 issue of the Canadian Family Physician journal, which includes a number of articles on digital health in Primary Care. First, Dr. Alex Singer and Dr. Alan Katz have written a great piece entitled "Future of family medicine in Canada: Four evidence-based strategies for health care transformation." https://www.cfp.ca/content/70/3/155 There's a lot of alignment here, with Infoway's work with the Provinces and Territories, Health Canada, and CIHI on advancing Connected Care / Interoperability, particularly the section "Promote real-time information exchange". Second, the research article "Artificial intelligence for family medicine research in Canada: current state and future directions: Report of the CFPC AI Working Group", that attempts to summarize the current landscape of AI in primary care research in Canada. I was fortunate to be part of an expert round table session mentioned in this report, which identifies action areas for research in primary care AI. https://www.cfp.ca/content/70/3/161 The recommendations are strong, but will likely need some modification in the new era of generative AI tools. Interested in the community's thoughts on this - regarding AI in primary care, do you see hope, or hype ? Where should research efforts be focused ?

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The Future of Family Medicine - AI, Interoperability, and more ! 04/18/24

Hi Carl, Thanks for your message. You have hit upon one of the critical issues for certain AI applications in primary care, but more broadly in health care. We are living in an age of data informed medicine, but as you noted, if our foundation or...

The Future of Family Medicine - AI, Interoperability, and more ! 04/09/24

Very well written papers, thanks for passing them on! The parts of the AI Working Group paper that speak to data access and integrity hit home with me. "Participant's were, however, optimistic that with improved funding, a focus on FM values and...

The Future of Family Medicine - AI, Interoperability, and more ! 04/04/24

I want to highlight a very interesting March 2024 issue of the Canadian Family Physician journal, which includes a number of articles on digital health in Primary Care. First, Dr. Alex Singer and Dr. Alan Katz have written a great piece entitled "...

Patient Summary, QR codes, and the Art of the Possible 03/07/24

Infoway and partners Health Canada, CIHI and others, are working towards the goals of a pan-Canadian Interoperability Roadmap. This includes plans to support Provincial and Territorial partners in implementing an interoperable Patient Summary, a...

Survey Reminder 02/27/24

Hi pCCCN members, Just a reminder to complete this short survey by tomorrow to help us understand how to make our communities more meaningful. Survey link: ... Thank you,

Survey of pCCCN membership 02/13/24

Greetings pCCCN members, In an effort to make our communities more meaningful for all members, we are looking for your feedback on what is working well and what could be improved in your user experience. Please take a couple of minutes to answ...

Interoperability Saves Lives - Report 01/29/24

Looking back on Digital Health in 2023, I want to highlight an important report that may have flown beneath the radar. This past fall, the Alberta Virtual Care Coordinating Body released a report entitled Interoperability Saves Lives. The docum...

Community name change: pan-Canadian Clinician Community Network 12/04/23

To emphasize our focus on gathering clinician perspectives to support work to advance the shared pan-Canadian Digital Health Interoperability Roadmap and build a connected health care system in Canada, the Clinician Engagement Network will be renamed...

Refresh alert: Changes coming to the Clinician Engagement Network 11/24/23

Great news, I will stand-by for next steps. Thank you, Sally

Refresh alert: Changes coming to the Clinician Engagement Network 11/23/23

Hello everyone, I wanted to post a quick note to indicate that we are hoping to refresh the Clinician Engagement Network in the coming weeks. This is an effort to continue the positive momentum across the country with regard to advancing digi...

Fundamental Issues for Clinicians 12/26/22

Good points Raymond. I agree with your sentiment about the potential streamlining coding, especially in this new era of AI where suggested SNOMED codes could appear automatically in a similar manner to how gmail can finish our sentences now. Even sim...

Clinician Change Virtual Care Toolkit - now online 07/12/22

Canada Health Infoway, in partnership with HEC (Healthcare Excellence Canada) and numerous clinical stakeholders, has developed a Clinician Change Virtual Care Toolkit, which is now available for download. The Toolkit contains information synthesi...

Cross-post: Off-Cycle Expanded RouteOfAdministration subset available on Terminology Gateway 04/27/22

Greetings, The expanded RouteOfAdministration subset is now available on the Terminology Gateway. The 20220427 version is an off-cycle release which reflects enhancements stemming from PS-CA work and recent consultations. These changes will be refl...

Cross-post: RouteOfAdministration Expansion Proposal Meeting Deck and Follow-up 04/11/22

Greetings folks, Many thanks to those who were able to make the meeting today. I have posted the slide deck to the documents folder of the HTC forum, which can be accessed .... As discussed, please provide all feedback before April 13. If you h...

Cross-post: Feedback requested: Proposal to Expand the Membership of RouteOfAdministration Subset / proposition d'ajout de membres au sous-ensemble RouteOfAdministration 04/07/22

Based on pan-Canadian requirements emerging from the Canadian Patient Summary (PS-CA) work, Infoway has identified an opportunity to enhance interoperability in Canada by expanding the definition and membership of the SNOMED CT CA Edition subset Rout...

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