Clinics: Canaries in the Technology Coal Mine, EMRs, and AI Scribes in Primary Care

Clinic days are full. The tech was supposed to help.In this episode of Breaking Silos in Canadian Healthcare, OntarioMD leaders Dr. Chandi Chandrasena and Dr. Darren Larsen sit down to talk honestly about what digital health is actually doing to clinic days in Ontario—where it’s working, where it’s clearly not, and how teams are quietly bending the tools back toward patient care.We get past the buzzwords and into the lived experience: overflowing inboxes, too many portals, and the emotional load of feeling like you’re charting more than you’re caring. Then we zoom out to the bigger questions: Which workflows are worth redesigning? Where can AI scribes and smarter integrations give clinicians time back? And what does it look like when vendors, clinicians, and organizations pull in the same direction instead of talking past each other?If you’ve ever felt like your EMR and digital tools are running your day instead of supporting it, this conversation is for you—and for anyone trying to build a better version of “normal” in Canadian primary care.Visit OntarioMD.live to register for the conference.