Sylvia Jones, Ontario’s deputy premier and minister of health, announces changes meant to reduce and streamline administrative tasks required of family doctors. The initiative would phase out fax machines, improve online platforms and services, simplify forms used by family doctors, and expand the waitlist for medical services. The province is also launching an artificial intelligence program to automatically summarise or transcribe conversations with patients who consent into electronic medical notes.

The minister is joined at the news conference in Toronto by South East Toronto Family Health Team representatives Stephen Beckwith (executive director) and President Louisa Huband (president), as well as Drs. Brendan Kelly (South East Toronto Family Health Team), Payal Agarwal (Women’s College Hospital), and Andrew Park (president of the Ontario Medical Association).

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