Ontario Helping Family Doctors Put Patients before Paperwork

The government is helping family doctors and other primary care providers to spend more time with their patients and less time on paperwork.

To help primary care providers spend more time with patients, our government is reducing unnecessary visits to doctors for sick notes and expanding an innovative program to more than 150 primary care providers that safely uses artificial intelligence to automatically summarize or transcribe conversations with patients, who consent, into electronic medical notes. These initiatives, alongside others aimed at putting patients over paperwork, will result in a better patient experience, more accurate records and free up to 95,000 hours annually for physicians to put back into their practices caring for patients. 

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EN: Patients before Paperwork

FR: Les patients avant la paperasserie