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How Canada Can Lead in Medical AI—Talent, Data, and Urgency

Canada has the potential to lead in medical AI—but leadership won’t be decided by technology alone.

In this episode of Wired for Change, Amy Yee sits down with Dr. Khaled El Emam to explore what it will really take to move medical AI from promise to practice. Drawing on real-world deployments in Canadian healthcare, they unpack why talent, data, and urgency—not hype—are now the deciding factors.

This conversation covers:

Where medical AI is already delivering real impact

Why deployment lags behind technical capability

How trust, transparency, and responsible data use enable scale

What Canada…

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