Canada’s health-care system is chronically understaffed: Six million Canadians are without a regular healthcare provider. A recent Health Canada study concluded that the country’s medical schools cannot train enough doctors to ever close the gap (to meet demand, we’d need another 22,000 physicians). And of the doctors we have, nearly half are feeling burned out.

Artificial intelligence is an obvious solution to our lack of people power. It is already at work behind the scenes in hospitals, reviewing medical images and monitoring patients’ charts for signs of deterioration. Nearly 60 per cent of doctors who use AI say it helps them speed through administrative tasks.

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