Family doctors in Canada: AI could help with paperwork [Video]

Dr. Rosemarie Lall says she was overworked and on the brink of either scaling back her practice or retiring early when she turned to artificial intelligence in a last-ditch effort to manage mounting paperwork.

The Toronto family physician says she would regularly go home and work on her patients’ files well into the night.

But last year she started testing an AI scribe that transcribes her patient encounters and summarizes them into notes that she can edit and add to electronic medical records. As a result, she spends less time on paperwork and more time on patients. She took Christmas off for the first time in years.

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“I needed to save my sanity,” said Lall, who has been practising family medicine for almost 30 years.

A 2023 report from the Canadian Federation of Independent …