Clinical Lead, Artificial Intelligence

Clinical Lead, Artificial Intelligence

Toronto / Virtual

1 day per week

Duration: 1 year + one optional 1-year extension

Reporting to the Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Ontario Health, the Clinical Lead will provide leadership and expertise in the development, identification, evaluation, adoption and scaling of AI technologies across Ontario's health care system. This role will support goal of establishing Ontario as the world's leading health care jurisdiction in the development, deployment and use of AI technologies to drive better health system outcomes.

The Clinical Lead, Artificial Intelligence will provide leadership and expert advice to guide Ontario Health's evolving provincial AI action plan, with a particular focus on priorities including:

• Identifying high impact, evidence-based clinical use cases for AI health technologies
• Identifying, evaluating and performing quality assurance activities around promising AI health technologies to guide decisions around which technologies are of high value and high impact potential for scaling up provincially
• Establishing processes and infrastructure for rapidly scaling high value AI health technologies regionally and provincially, including leveraging existing provincial clinical digital infrastructure and clinical decision support systems to support the training and deployment of health AI solutions
• Advising on high value provincial health data assets (including administrative, clinical and electronic health record data) for supporting development and deployment of health AI solutions, and how these data assets can be accessed, transformed and securely shared to support AI development and deployment
• Advising on building skills, capacity and readiness in health care organizations for AI adoption

Recognizing the importance of partnerships in advancing these objectives, the Clinical Lead, Artificial Intelligence will also serve as a liaison between Ontario Health leadership, clinical leaders, AI developers and health system partners in collaborative efforts to advance the provincial health AI action plan.

The key responsibilities of the Clinical Lead, Artificial Intelligence, include:

• Provide clinical leadership and expert guidance in frameworks and approaches for assessing the effectiveness, safety, and feasibility of adopting AI applications in real-world healthcare settings
• Guide the development of processes for identifying, evaluating, and driving provincial adoption and monitoring of high value health care AI technologies, in collaboration with health system partners
• Ensure alignment with provincial health care priorities and system transformation initiatives
• Work with health system partners to guide responsible deployment and scaling of clinically validated AI tools
• Engage with health care leaders and organizations to support partnerships for advancing the provincial action plan for AI in health
• Serve as a trusted clinician leader voice to build system-wide confidence in AI-enabled health care tools and champion transparency and adherence to ethical AI principles
• Advise on high value provincial health data assets (including administrative, clinical and electronic health record data) for supporting development and deployment of health AI solutions, and how these data assets can be accessed, transformed and securely shared to support AI development and deployment
• Advise on processes and infrastructure for rapidly scaling high value AI health technologies provincially, including leveraging existing provincial clinical digital infrastructure and clinical decision support systems to support the deployment of health AI solutions
• Advising on building skills, capacity and readiness in health care organizations for AI adoption
• Guide development of mechanisms for responsible evaluation and safe provincial deployment of clinically validated AI technologies
• Monitor progress against objectives and key performance indicators related to selected AI priorities and initiatives
• Identify provincial barriers and enablers to health care AI development, deployment and scaling; guide the design of strategies to remove barriers and leverage enablers
• Enhance communication and knowledge exchange to inform provincial priorities and local implementation of AI initiatives

QUALIFICATIONS

Education and Experience

· Recognized leader in the field of AI technologies in health care

· Licensed clinician

· Experience in leading large scale, data-driven health AI projects with a track record of successful deployment and impact

· Demonstrated experience in clinical innovation and health care system leadership and transformation, with experience guiding multi-disciplinary projects involving clinical, administrative and data/digital teams

· Working knowledge of best practices and methodologies for AI model validation, review, implementation and monitoring

· Experience leading system-level change, including scaling of tools, new models of care and frameworks across diverse clinical settings

· Knowledge of relevant legislative and policy frameworks

Knowledge and Skills

· Demonstrated understanding of provincial data and digital assets and architecture

· Deep understanding of clinical workflows and how AI can integrate into health care practice in the Ontario health care system

· Proven ability to assess clinical risk, safety, and effectiveness of AI applications and support scale-up efforts

· Excellent communicator with mature leadership experience in building strong relationships and achieving consensus

Recruiter Submission Template:

Full Name:

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Are you a Licensed clinician?

Total experience as Clinical Lead, Artificial Intelligence?

Experience in leading large scale, data-driven health AI projects with a track record of successful deployment and impact?

Demonstrated experience in clinical innovation and health care system leadership and transformation, with experience guiding multi-disciplinary projects involving clinical, administrative and data/digital teams?

Working knowledge of best practices and methodologies for AI model validation, review, implementation and monitoring?

Experience leading system-level change, including scaling of tools, new models of care and frameworks across diverse clinical settings?

Knowledge of relevant legislative and policy frameworks?

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Are you ready to relocate on your own expenses and work at Toronto / Virtual – Onsite - 1 Day / Week?