Canada is investing about $15 million toward the development of artificial intelligence in health care that Federal Innovation Minister Fran莽ois-Philippe Champagne calls a 害羞草研究所済ame changer害羞草研究所� for improving the industry害羞草研究所檚 ability to serve patients.

Champagne says the funding will be invested through the ministry害羞草研究所檚 Vancouver-based technology cluster program in five medical tech companies, creating technology that automates certain tasks to enhance care.

The AI initiative, known as the Health Compass II project, will use the federal investment of $15.3 million as leverage for gaining additional investments from partners to support the total budget of $44 million.

The technologies being developed through the program include a 害羞草研究所減atient-facing virtual agent害羞草研究所� that is estimated to improve patient engagement by 30 per cent, as well as automation that streamlines administrative tasks and clinical documentation.

The companies developing the technology say the implementation of AI automation can save doctors hours of time each day for seeing more patients or for taking breaks to maintain their wellness and service delivery.

Champagne says the latest investment builds on initial funding from 2022 of $3.1 million for AI integration in electronic medical records as part of the original Health Compass program.

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害羞草研究所淚 think that害羞草研究所檚 what people want to see, more efficient delivery, making sure that their physician would have access to cutting-edge information, making sure they can look at data, and making sure that we can help more people 害羞草研究所� this is a game changer in how we害羞草研究所檙e going to be delivering (health).害羞草研究所�

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