Making Work Worth Doing Series
Canadian Efficiency in Lung Cancer Diagnosis: AI-Enabled in The Alberta Thoracic Oncology Program
Session Date: March 26 , 10:30-11:30 Pacific Time
Dr. Aurelia Roman, consultant working across policy environments, academic networks, and medical area, led our 1st session of Making Work Worth Doing on 𝗧𝗵𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝟮6th March 𝟭𝟬 𝗮𝗺 𝗣𝗧.
In this session, Dr. Aurelia Roman presented Alberta’s integrated lung-cancer diagnostic program that combines human expertise, process redesign and AI-enabled automation to dramatically shorten referral and diagnostic timelines; the session examined clinical reality, program design decisions, ethical/human-centered AI considerations, outcomes, and implications for organizational governance and scaling. Key evidence: referral times shortened from 23.6 to 4.7 days; program established in 2011 and operates at provincial scale in Alberta (population ~5 million).
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