Health Shared Services has been working actively with clinical teams to evaluate the efficacy, safety and impacts of using AI tools in Connect Care. In pilot testing earlier this year, two chart summarization tools from Epic’s “Nebula AI” platform received positive feedback from prescribers, earning praise for improving clinical efficiency. On this basis, these tools will soon be made available to Connect Care prescribers across the province:
- Inpatient Insights – creates summaries of events during an inpatient stay, useful for clinical handover and case review
- Draft Hospital Course – creates a summary “hospital course” for use in discharge summaries
The tools will be rolled out in three phases, spreading out the number of new users over time so that sufficient support for onboarding and safe clinical use can be provided for each cohort. Prescribers have been assigned to implementation cohorts based on their Medical Affairs department specialty designation as identified by the CPSA:
- Cohort One – beginning October 19, 2026
- Included specialties: Critical Care Medicine, Family Medicine, General Internal Medicine
- Cohort Two – beginning January 2027
- Included specialties: Addictions & Mental Health, Medicine subspecialties, Oncology, Pediatrics, Residents and Fellows
- Cohort Three – beginning February 2027
- Included specialties: Anesthesiology, Rural, Surgery & Transplant, Women's Health (Obs/Gyne), Pathology, Nurse Practitioners
When access is available, prescribers will receive an email with instructions for training and onboarding.
We look forward to sharing these new AI tools with prescribers, while providing sufficient training and support to ensure safe and effective use in clinical practice.
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(Post updated October 19 to include specialties.)
