In its new "AI for All" strategy, the government has rightly chosen healthcare as the priority area for AI development. The initiative will be funded initially with $200 million. Of the health money announced so far, the only line items are $200M for data platforms (the Health Sector
I recently came upon a really well done report on the state of AI in healthcare. It's been prepared by an organization called "Arise-AI," and is available here. I strongly recommend the report to anyone with an interest in the subject of AI applications. There&
It's universally recognized that we're currently in a healthcare crisis. Most of the solutions come down to marginal reallocation of system resources - funding a new family medicine clinic in a specific rural community, marginally slightly increasing physician training slots, programs to onboard more international medical graduates.
I started working in Health Tech in the early aughts, with a small tech business I started with a friend from school (AudioNotch). At the time, the thinking was that app-based tools dedicated to specific disease states were the preferred thing to build - and you saw a lot of
This paper made the rounds recently, and not without good reason. It turns out Large Language Models are very good at formulating a differential diagnosis. On the other hand, some research indicates that the utility of these models might be more brittle than it appears: This paper recently went viral
Agentic Healthcare is a blog about the application of AI agents to healthcare workflows. I'm Dr. Peter Phua, a Canadian-trained physician with an interest in AI for healthcare. A lot has been written about the healthcare crisis in Canada, a system which is currently in crisis at