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John Fernandes

This is a remarkably well done standard of practice that will obviously evolve rapidly over time and with improvements and evolution of various technologies including web-enabled telemetry devices such as stethoscopes, blood pressure and glucose monitors and pulse oximetry as well as thermometers, etc. I see this standard of practice eventually dovetailing into a standard of practice involving the use of AI assistance in the evaluation of patients as well as the documentation of the patient interaction. Another addition to the standard of practice that may soon become necessary is the inclusion of AI API's on practice websites (ie. "chatbots") that dispense medical advice to patients through a "chat format". While such chatbots are surprisingly effective and dispense surprisingly good advice, they can very easily and unexpectedly dispense absolutely incorrect advice. Any and all such potentialities should be limited to having the chatbot, for example, limit the nature of advice given (which may be seen as a type of "virtual care") to how to contact the Physician for an appointment or after hours emergency care. The CPSA will soon be required to have a standard of practice on the training and ongoing evaluation of AI API's on Physician websites, as this technology will no doubt continue to evolve rapidly over time. The CPSA, as if it doesn't already have enough to do, needs to rapidly evolve its standards of practice on the use of AI both in office and on Physician websites.

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