As Quebec seeks to implement its Digital Health Record (DSN) project, concerns are emerging about translation errors and inefficiencies in the platform, resulting in ballooning costs and potentially severe delays to patient care.

A McGill expert is available to comment on this topic:

Samira Abbasgholizadeh Rahimi is Canada Research Chair (Tier II) in AI and Advanced Digital Primary Health Care and an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Dental Medicine and Oral Health Sciences. She is also Co-Director of McGill’s Collaborative for AI and Society, and an Associate Academic Member of Mila – Quebec AI Institute.

Prof. Rahimi can discuss the importance of creating strong digital foundations in supporting clinical decision-making, as well as the challenges of fragmented or hybrid (paper-digital) systems. She can also explain how well-designed digital records, combined with proper digital health and AI tools, can enable earlier detection of clinical deterioration, safer medication management, and smoother transitions across hospitals, primary care and long-term care.

samira.rahimi [at] mcgill.ca (English, French, Arabic, Farsi, Turkish)