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Ontario experts at TOPHC 2026 argue while AI-driven misinfo is ‘terrifying’ threat, the same tech could be key to rebuilding public trust.

As AI transforms specialties, the challenge isn’t the tech—it’s updating a healthcare system still billing for the era of the horse and buggy.

‘These technologies have been shown to limit desire for interaction with peers, pushed some young people into sexual conversations and have even recommended suicide to vulnerable youth,’ states the resolution.

Well over half of cancer survivors deal with insomnia.

Ontario began trying to create integrated electronic medical records for patients in the early 2000s, but in 2009 the then-Liberal health minister was forced to resign after the auditor general said the eHealth agency had spent $1 billion but had little to show for it.

What I’ve come to realize is that anyone or anything can write the stories, especially AI. But not everyone can live the stories, and it is in the living that metrics and algorithms and data banks fail the test.

More and more people are directing their health questions to AI assistants. Sometimes they respond: ‘Consult a pharmacist.’ The question is: Which pharmacist? Which pharmacy?

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