Webinar Wednesday - Governing Generative AI: From Permission to Competency to Measurement

Will Falk discusses his new CSA Public Policy Centre paper, “A Complement, Not a Substitute: Generative AI’s Role in Canadian Healthcare in 2026.”  Here’s an excerpt:https://www.canhealth.com/2026/02/26/governing-generative-ai-from-permission-to-competency-to-measurement/

The paper’s central argument is simple: the bigger risk now is moving too slowly. Clinicians are already using generative tools for documentation and information retrieval. Patients are using them to get explanations and navigate a system that often fails to do either. Pretending we can pause this adoption doesn’t make healthcare safer.  It may lead to a shadow system.

Will examines where generative AI offers real leverage against familiar constraints, why the complement-versus-substitute distinction matters for clinical practice, what early Canadian implementations are actually showing, and what policymakers and regulators need to get right. The audience should expect a direct, evidence-based case for moving faster with appropriate safeguards not another cautious call for more study.

Presented by:

Will Falk, B.Sc., MPPM

Will Falk spent 25 years as a strategist and advisor in New York and Toronto advising top academic centres, governments, and innovative companies in healthcare.  Since retiring from the PwC partnership in 2017, Will had had several roles. He is an Executive in Residence at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto where he has taught since 2008. He is a Senior Fellow at the CD Howe Institute, a Fellow with the Canadian Standards Association Public Policy Centre, and an Innovation Fellow at Women’s College Hospital Institute for Health System Solutions and Virtual Care. He invests in and has worked with several startups focused on healthcare.

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