Medical professionals’ discomfort with digital tech is stumbling block to spread of AI in health care, say experts

A culture that divides the IT and medical aspects of health care is a stumbling block to the spread of AI in the medical sector, according to Dr. Ross Mitchell.

Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos is pictured speaking at a Jan. 19 press conference in the Sir John A. Macdonald Building. A Health Canada spokesperson says regulatory requirements for adaptive machine learning-enabled medical devices could be launched in 2022 or 2023.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY JESSE CNOCKAERT

March 30, 2022

Medical professionals' lack of comfort with new digital technologies is a major challenge that will need to be overcome as Health Canada develops the regulatory framework to support the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in medical devices, accordin...

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