An emerging model is quietly turning Canadian patient medical records, and patients themselves, into lucrative commercial assets – often without patients’ explicit knowledge or consent.
Large language models and chatbots are widely accessible, and often framed as supportive, empathic or even therapeutic. For most users, these systems are helpful or, at worst, benign.
Utah is the first jurisdiction in the U.S. where artificial intelligence will be able to renew certain prescriptions, without any human healthcare worker involved.
McKesson Canada has announced a new multi-year partnership with healthcare technology company Healthera after successful piloting a two-way integration with their software.
Starting this month, the territory will be offering 80 licences for Mika AI, a medical scribe tool developed by Calgary-based health-tech company Mikata Health.
Canada Health Infoway’s Dr. Rashaad Bhyat says deeper EMR integration will soon allow AI scribes to handle referrals, prescriptions and lab requisitions.
