{"id":220240,"date":"2026-03-05T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/05\/why-canadas-largest-pediatric-hospital-is-betting-on-artificial-intelligence\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T11:20:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T16:20:13","slug":"why-canadas-largest-pediatric-hospital-is-betting-on-artificial-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/05\/why-canadas-largest-pediatric-hospital-is-betting-on-artificial-intelligence\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Canada’s largest pediatric hospital is betting on artificial intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"

Why Canada’s largest pediatric hospital is betting on artificial intelligence<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/business\/article-why-canadas-largest-pediatric-hospital-is-betting-on-artificial\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-03-05 11:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n

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SickKids in Toronto has been building AI infrastructure for more than a decade and is now preparing to trial a system that could order diagnostic tests before a physician has seen the patient.<\/span>THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Frank Gunn<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s lunchtime at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. A child arrives in the emergency department, doubled over in abdominal pain. The standard intake information is collected: vital signs, symptoms, history. An artificial intelligence model assesses the data, flags a high likelihood of appendicitis, and orders an ultrasound.<\/p>\n

No waiting for a physician to work through a queue of patients. By the time the child is seen by a doctor, the imaging results are in hand. A same-day surgery is booked, and the child is soon recovering at home.<\/p>\n

That future is not far off. This summer, SickKids will launch a trial that brings this scenario closer to reality. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt represents a massive leap forward in how AI will accelerate patients towards a diagnosis faster,\u201d says Dr. Devin Singh, co-lead of the SickKids\u2019s artificial intelligence service, known as SKAI.<\/p>\n

During the first phase of the trial, a trained clinician will review and approve each AI-generated recommendation. The model has been running silently in the background at SickKids for more than 18 months, and the results, Dr. Singh says, are impressive. It\u2019s the culmination of more than five years of development, and a glimpse of what hospital medicine will look like in the decade ahead.<\/p>\n

The goal with the trial is to use data captured at triage to anticipate which patients are likely to need particular tests before a physician has formally assessed them. <\/p>\n

\u201cWhy have a patient sit for four to six hours waiting if we can make this prediction with such great precision?\u201d Dr. Singh says. \u201cLet\u2019s just order the test right away.\u201d<\/p>\n

The longer-term vision, once the clinician-review phase is proven safe, is for AI to communicate directly with patients and families to…<\/p>\n

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