AI scribes are revolutionizing clinical practice by automating medical transcription, note-taking, and documentation. The AI Scribe Panel aims to provide a comprehensive discussion on the legal aspects and future prospects of AI scribes in health care. By bringing together health-care professionals, legal experts, and technologists, we will be better positioned to navigate the complexities of AI integration in health care responsibly and ethically, ensuring optimal patient care and professional practice standards.
Presented by:
- Ariane Siegel, General Counsel & Chief Privacy Officer
- Devin Singh, MD, Emergency Physician, The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids)
- Onil Bhattacharyya, MD, PhD, Frigon Blau Chair, Family Medicine, Women’s College Hospital
- Rosemarie Lall, MD, Physician Peer Leader, OntarioMD
- Moderated by Will Falk, Innovation Fellow, Women’s College Hospital
Presenter Bios:
Ariane Siegel
Ariane joined OntarioMD as General Counsel and Chief Privacy Officer in 2016. She has been recognized internationally for her achievements in privacy and security. She was recently awarded the 2023 Women in IT Award for Canada’s Security Leader of the Year. She has also been recognized by Who’s Who as a global leader in technology law, privacy and data protection. Ariane provides OntarioMD with strategic and legal advice. Her current focus is on technology and legal issues with respect to use of Artificial Intelligence in Primary Care. Through her leadership, OntarioMD provides health system partners with a practical perspective on privacy and security from the lens of community-based physician practices. Ariane developed OntarioMD’s Privacy & Security Training Module for the Ontario health-care sector and a second Module focused on virtual care.
Prior to joining OntarioMD, Ariane supported global corporations with technology law advice as a Partner in Canada’s largest law firm and from her own practice. She worked as a Senior Investigator for the federal Privacy Commissioner, Law Clerk to the Chief Justice of the Ontario Court of Justice and as Constitutional Counsel to the Attorney General of Ontario. Ariane was part of the launch team for Richard Branson’s Virgin Mobile Canada.
Devin Singh, MD
Dr. Devin Singh is one of Canada’s first physicians to specialize in clinical artificial intelligence. He is an emergency physician at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) and holds a Masters in Computer Science degree from the University of Toronto. He is an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto in both the Temerty Faculty of Medicine and the Division of Computer Science and is an emerging scholar helping to innovate the regulatory, privacy, and ethical landscape for AI in Canada and beyond. He is also the co-founder and CEO of Hero AI, a healthcare technology company dedicated to empowering patients and providers with AI.
Onil Bhattacharyya, MD
Coming soon.
Rosemarie Lall, MD
Rosemarie Lall is a family doctor practising comprehensive family medicine in Scarborough Village for over 25 years.
She is passionate about the central role of family doctors in health care. She champions the seamless integration of new technology in the EMR space. Sitting as the co-chair of the SOHT digital working group, she was a member of the Central East Digital Health advisory and joined an OntarioMD task force dedicated to improving HRM for family physicians. As Research Lead at DFCM Scarborough Teaching site and a UTOPIAN representative, she’s committed to increasing primary care research at this site and ensuring that Scarborough patients have a voice in research. She continues her involvement in the academic side of family medicine, teaching medical learners, participating in research projects and bridging community doctors and academic physicians; In 2020, Rosemarie became the SHN’s Principal Investigator for the CONCOR-1 plasma study.
Will Falk, B.Sc., MPPM
Will Falk spent 25 years as a strategist and advisor in New York and Toronto advising top academic centres, governments, and innovative companies in healthcare. Since retiring from the PwC partnership in 2017, Will had had several roles.
He is an Executive in Residence at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto where he has taught since 2008. He is a Senior Fellow at the CD Howe Institute and an Innovation Fellow at Women’s College Hospital Institute for Health System Solutions and Virtual Care. He invests in and has worked with several startups focused on healthcare.