An initiative by the Government of Prince Edward Island to enhance the digital health literacy skills of residents.
Bridge the gapp is an online mental health tool that helps people find support in a simple, comfortable, and private way.
Bridge the gapp has two options on their website: one for adults and one for youth. Both are easy to use and offer helpful tools, information, and programs.
An AI scribe is a digital tool that creates a draft summary “note” for your healthcare provider based on your conversation during an appointment.
Instead of your health care provider taking notes during your appointment, the AI scribe creates a temporary audio recording and draft summary. It helps ensure that important health-related details, no matter how small, are noted. By using an AI scribe your health care provider can focus more on you and less on taking notes.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is already part of everyday life – from the virtual chat on your banking app, to the way Netflix suggests what you might like. Now AI is being used to help doctors, nurses, and other health care providers.
On PEI, health care teams are exploring how AI tools can support both patients and professionals to help enhance patient care.
Here are some examples of how AI is being used in Canadian health care:
Virtual care means getting health advice, diagnoses, prescriptions, or follow-ups through technology like your phone, tablet, or computer. No travel, no waiting room. Just you and a health care provider, connected through video, phone, or secure messaging.
It might look like:
You’ve likely heard it on the news many times – new electronic health and medical records in PEI are helping clinicians better co-ordinate care. But what does that mean? And what’s the difference between an electronic health record (EHR) and an electronic medical record (EMR)?
While both are secure, digital records of patient information that can be accessed by clinicians involved in your health care, there are some differences between these two records. Let’s break it down.
