From the Editors

Anne Wojtak; Neil Stuart

doi:10.12927/hcq.2024.27262

From the Editors

Healthc Q. 2024 Jan;26(4):1-3. doi: 10.12927/hcq.2024.27262.

Authors

Anne Wojtak¹, Neil Stuart²

Affiliations

¹ A senior healthcare leader with 20+ years of experience in the home and community care sector in Ontario. She is the lead for East Toronto Health Partners (Ontario Health Team), has a consulting practice focused on health system strategy and is adjunct faculty at the University of Toronto in Toronto, ON.
² Served for many years as a partner and practice leader in the Canadian healthcare consulting practices of PricewaterhouseCoopers and then IBM. He is on the board of the Health Standards Organization and has an adjunct faculty appointment at the University of Toronto's Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation in Toronto, ON.

PMID: 38482640
DOI: 10.12927/hcq.2024.27262

Abstract

There is no doubt that 2023 was a very difficult year for many Canadians, as well as people across the world. War caused massive upheaval globally, inflation continued to impose financial hardship on families and our health systems experienced another brutal respiratory season while still in recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. Unfortunately, the year ahead is likely to bring more political and economic uncertainty, although we hope it also brings with it some opportunities for our health system, including the use of artificial intelligence (AI), research advancements and system transformation initiatives.

MeSH terms

Artificial Intelligence*
COVID-19* / epidemiology
Canada / epidemiology
Humans
North American People*
Pandemics

Supplementary concepts

Canadian people