Doctors are turning to AI scribes to take medical notes. Quebec wants to test it out – CBC
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Aug 13, 2025
Frustrated by overwhelming paperwork that eats into their time with patients, some doctors in Quebec have been turning to artificial intelligence tools to streamline the transcription of their medical notes during consultations.
Now, Santé Québec, the Crown corporation that oversees the province’s health-care network, is planning to launch a pilot project to look into these technologies with the goal of expanding their use in the health-care system.
Dr. Felix Lê-Phat-Hô, a family physician based in Montreal, has been using one of the tools for a year and says it’s reduced his mental load and improved his quality of service.
“It has a huge impact in my clinical practice,” he said of the tool Plume AI.
Lê-Phat-Hô says the tool saves him from doing two to three hours of paperwork daily, allowing him to see up to three more patients a day.
Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/sante-quebec-ai-scribe-doctors-1.7606998
