CAMH to use Oracle Health Clinical AI Agent

TORONTO – The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) in Toronto has selected to pilot Oracle Health Clinical AI Agent to help automate clinical note generation across its outpatient mental health clinics and programs. The AI-powered, voice-enabled solution will help CAMH physicians standardize and streamline documentation for outpatient encounters and spend less time on administrative tasks so they can focus more time on patient care.

CAMH is Canada’s largest mental health teaching hospital and one of the world’s leading research centers in its field, with a dedicated staff of more than 5,000 physicians, clinicians, researchers, educators, and support staff that provide clinical care to more than 38,000 patients each year.

By integrating Oracle Health Clinical AI Agent directly within its existing Oracle Health Foundation electronic health record (EHR), CAMH anticipates significantly alleviating the administrative burden that contributes to clinician burnout.

This Oracle AI agent is poised to tackle the time-consuming process of clinical notetaking, enabling providers to reduce time spent charting after hours and redirect their energy back to patient care. The strategic investment highlights CAMH’s commitment to exploring innovative ways to support its staff and enhance the overall clinician experience.

“The clinician-patient relationship is central to effective mental health care,” said Dr. Tania Tajirian (pictured), chief health information officer, CAMH. “By reducing time spent on documentation and maximizing the quality of clinical notes, Oracle Health Clinical AI Agent can help clinicians spend less time typing and more time truly listening to their patients.”

The Oracle Health Clinical AI Agent uses speech-to-text prompts, only after obtaining explicit patient consent, to interpret mental health sessions in near real-time and automatically generate comprehensive, narrative-rich draft notes.

These drafts are generated for physicians to review, edit, and clinically validate at the point of care. CAMH physicians will be able to complete this process directly within the patient record, helping reduce the amount of administrative work required after hours.

CAMH will be the first hospital in Canada to pilot Oracle Health Clinical AI Agent. It is expected to go live in 2026.

“CAMH exemplifies how leading organizations are leveraging Oracle Health’s AI-driven technology to enhance the clinician experience and patient care,” said Erin O’Halloran, vice president and Canada market leader, Oracle Health. “With the Oracle Health Clinical AI Agent supporting physicians’ work, CAMH will be able to alleviate administrative burdens and help them to continue delivering high quality care to patients.”

For more information about Oracle Health Clinical AI Agent, visit oracle.com/health/clinical-suite/clinical-ai-agent.