The federal government’s artificial intelligence strategy will include up to $100-million in funding to expand an Ontario-based health data initiative to the rest of Canada.

The program, called Vital, is a health data platform run out of Toronto’s St. Michael’s Hospital that gathers anonymized records from hospitals for use by researchers. Its predecessor program, Gemini, also based at St. Michael’s, has already been used by researchers to glean insights from the Ontario health care system to improve patient outcomes, while saving money and…