The Health Care Unburdened Grant program
$10 million in grants for initiatives that reduce the administrative burden facing physicians.
Let’s turn lost minutes into patient care
An estimated 18.5 million hours are spent by physicians annually on unnecessary administrative tasks. Through the Health Care Unburdened Grant program, the Canadian Medical Association (CMA), MD Financial Management Inc. and Scotiabank® offered $10 million in grants to implement innovative ideas to help physicians reclaim lost time and improve patient care.
The grant recipients include:
Doctors Manitoba
Saving time by simplifying, standardizing or eliminating sick notes and medical certifications
Kingston Health Sciences Centre
CARE: Collaborative using Artificial intelligence to Reduce EHR documentation burden
New Brunswick Medical Society
Increasing and optimizing the use of electronic medical records
Newfoundland and Labrador Medical Association
Improving efficiency by integrating authorization request forms with the provincial electronic medical record
Read more about Newfoundland and Labrador Medical Association
Quebec College of Family Physicians
Human-centred standards for technological advances in primary care
Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre
Developing clinical standards for Goals of Care discussions
Shuswap Cardiac Society
Putting patients back in the heart of their health care journeys
University of Alberta
Automated scribes for use in emergency departments
Université de Sherbrooke
Improving family medicine with patient-reported data
University of Toronto
Harnessing the power of AI scribe technology to reduce burnout and enhance care
"Most physicians go into medicine because we want to sit at that intersection between science and human-to-human connection. Administrative burden stands in the way of that positive relationship we have with patients."
CMA is working in collaboration with Healthcare Excellence Canada (HEC) to support selected teams through coaching, focused learning activities, networking and knowledge-sharing.
Have a question? Get in touch with our funding team at [email protected]
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