You waited 4 hours at the ER. You forgot a prescription. You got the wrong dose because of an administrative error. Welcome to the Quebec healthcare system. And yes, AI could help. But it’s complicated.<\/p>\n
Wait times? An AI can predict patient flow and optimize schedules.
\nDiagnostics? An AI can analyze medical images (X-rays, MRIs) as well\u2014sometimes better\u2014than a human.
\nAdministration? Automate patient records, prescriptions, billing. Boom, fewer errors.<\/p>\n
Sounds magical. But Quebec… is dragging its feet a bit.<\/p>\n
For AI to work in healthcare, you need data. A lot. Structured patient records, high-resolution medical images, history. Quebec has all that, but it’s scattered. One hospital has one IT system. The next one has a different one. Clinics? Not even connected.<\/p>\n
It’s like asking ChatGPT to write a novel using sentences written on different pieces of paper, in different languages, piled up randomly. Technically possible, but… not optimal.<\/p>\n
Pilot projects. The Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al (them again!) is working with hospitals. Startups are developing specialized solutions. But it’s slow. Too slow for a system that’s already overflowing.<\/p>\n
The key thing: for it to really work, we’d need real political will to modernize the IT infrastructure. Not just implement AI “on top of” the current chaos.<\/p>\n
Maybe in 5-10 years. Not tomorrow. But the potential is enormous: fewer medical errors, faster diagnostics, less waiting. It’s just that… we need to fix the infrastructure first.<\/p>\n
Curious to learn more about AI applied to healthcare? Sherpa<\/a> has specialized info, or dig deeper on Laeka Research<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" You waited 4 hours at the ER. You forgot a prescription. You got the wrong dose because of an administrative…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":101,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[193],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ai-in-quebec"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laeka.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laeka.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laeka.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laeka.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laeka.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/laeka.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laeka.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laeka.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laeka.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laeka.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}