Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I listened keenly on the Minister of Health and Social Services' Minister's statement today on the public administrator. It seems to me that the biggest achievement from the last -- or the short tenure of the administrator has been the Dehcho patient journey. Now we're seeing a promised Yellowknife patient journey. My question is, is it going to be one patient journey per region per year? Is it going to be a five-year thing where we get to one at a time? Because we urgently need healthcare reform now, and we can't wait five years for every region to have a journey. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Thank you, Member from Range Lake. Minister of Health and Social Services.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the Dehcho journey was identified because within the concerns and the observations that once we analyzed all the regions, that was where the priority was needed. And due to the amount of residents in the capital and the continuing ongoing concerns with access to primary care, that is how we designated the second -- Yellowknife as the next journey. The remainder of -- like, the Beaufort Delta and the Sahtu, those areas have also already been having projects that have been going on to try to improve access to care. It doesn't necessarily mean they need patient journeys. We will, however, complete the Yellowknife and as we move forward and work with the other regions, whether or not they need designation patient journeys, we will analyze that as they come. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Well, I guess we've just got the two to look forward to and then we'll move on.
Speaking of moving on, another part of the statement was talking about the Mika AI Scribe tool. So my question with this tool that's being touted as innovative as listening to the physicians who have asked for more AI tools and more innovation, we use paper-based charting, Mr. Speaker. That's how we do charting in the hospital system and in the health system. How does an AI help with that? And to that end, is it compatible with our EMR, our outdated EMR that needs replacing? We have this state-of-the-art tool. So how is this AI actually interacting with paper systems and with an outdated electronic medical record system? Thank you.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the Member is correct. When you're an inpatient, it is a paper file; however, in primary care there are some forms of -- with this tool, it would be uploaded as the information goes into the EMR. However, many of our specialty reports that come back are paper and they're uploaded into EMR so that way it's accessible throughout the EMR. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Thank you, Minister of Health and Social Services. Final supplementary. Member from Range Lake.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Finally, the organizational review that was completed last year and the future organizational change to the governance structure of NTHSSA, we've already done these reviews. In fact, many of the recommendations -- or recommendations were made the last time that were ignored. So why are we wasting more time and money on reviews and paying an expensive public administrator to do them when we already have the answers, we're just choosing not to implement them? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Sometimes when third parties come in and they make recommendations, it's not necessarily easy to implement those recommendations. And also working within some of the recommendations that were suggested, there were many options and many of the options were to remain status quo. We know that status quo is not the option to do. So what we are taking into account are the recommendations that have been suggested but also working within our system to see where are there other areas that can change as well as structurally. And one of the parts that we are continuing to work on is the NTHSSA and the department and some of that overlap and currently that work is ongoing. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Thank you, Minister of Health and Social Services. Oral questions. Member from Frame Lake.
