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April 06, 2026

Healthcare Papers presents Tipping the Balance Toward Positive Futures for Patients: AI in Healthcare

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Artificial intelligence can improve or worsen health and healthcare. This commentary shares four principles—recognizing AI’s unique characteristics, right-sizing, co-design, and equity-focus—to tip the balance toward positive futures. By Jennifer Zelmer and Annette MacKinnon. 

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Tuesday, May 05, 2026  - Toronto, Ontario Longwoods Breakfast Series

From Promise to Practice: Scaling AI in Healthcare

Karli Farrow, President and CEO, Trillium Health Partners and Tomi Poutanen, CEO, Signal 1

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Apr 16, 2026 Health & Healthcare News
Hospitalization rates for illnesses like COVID, flu have doubled since pre-pandemic, report finds

2026-04-16 from cbc.ca Years after the virus that causes COVID-19 kicked off a global pandemic, it’s still sending thousands of Canadians into hospital each year alongside other respiratory inf [...]

Apr 16, 2026 Health & Healthcare News
Dealing with Rising Public Health Care Costs

2026-04-16 from unpublished.ca Public health care expenditures are escalating uncontrollably across the globe, exhibiting unsustainable growth. In Canada, health care spending reached $399 billi [...]

Apr 16, 2026 Health & Healthcare News
Why Canada’s health-care system is eyeing the global helium shortage closely

2026-04-16 from ctvnews.ca From the party décor industry to the health-care system, a worldwide helium shortage – the fifth in two decades – runs the risk of threatening operations [...]

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Canada has higher rates of immigration than many high-income countries. Provinces' health systems have been slow to adapt new policies and practices to accommodate the newcomers. New immigrants are left to “shoehorn” themselves into health systems that were not designed for their languages, culture or preferences for care. For immigrants, language barriers impede communication, undermine the clinician-patient relationship and discourage healthcare-seeking behaviours. New policies are [...]

 

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