Physician · Researcher · Builder
I'm Jason Trickovic, a family physician exploring how AI can transform healthcare — from the exam room to academic research. I bridge our clinical reality with emerging technology, building and understanding what actually works.
Explore my workAbout
Healthcare is under pressure. Physicians are burning out. Patients wait too long. Information overwhelms us all. I believe artificial intelligence — developed thoughtfully, implemented carefully — can help. But only if we build it right.
As a practicing family physician, I see these pressures every day. As a researcher, I study how AI can genuinely help (not just promise to). As a clinical lead for AI implementation projects, I help turn ideas into reality.
The piezoelectric effect transforms mechanical pressure into usable electrical energy. That's the metaphor for my work: taking healthcare's immense pressures and converting them into intelligent solutions.
Department of Family Medicine · Teaching and research
CIHR-funded RCT on AI-generated patient education
Microsoft-Nuance ambient AI scribe at The Ottawa Hospital
practical curriculum for residents and faculty
Michener Institute · AI in Healthcare · 15-month program
Projects
A CIHR-funded randomized controlled trial comparing AI-generated versus human-generated patient education materials. Double-blind, crossover, non-inferiority design.
View protocol manuscriptFamily Medicine Clinical Lead for Microsoft-Nuance's ambient AI scribe implementation in Family Medicine at The Ottawa Hospital. Reducing documentation burden for physicians.
Read the Microsoft case studyA structured curriculum teaching physicians and trainees to critically evaluate and effectively use AI tools. Four modules covering fundamentals, ethics, learning, and teaching.
Download program overviewAn AI-powered platform to streamline residency field notes, capture reflective conversations, and deliver personalized micro-learning after clinical sessions.
In active developmentWriting
Most healthcare AI focuses on hospital medicine and specialties. Family medicine has different needs — and bigger opportunities.
Lessons from building an AI literacy curriculum for the next generation of physicians.
What I've learned from implementing ambient AI scribes in a busy academic practice.
The Concept
"Piezoelectric materials convert mechanical pressure into electrical power. Healthcare is under immense pressure. The question is whether we can transform that pressure into intelligence that actually helps."
This site is about that transformation. Taking the pressures of modern medicine — burnout, access barriers, information overload, admin burden — and exploring how thoughtfully designed AI can convert them into solutions. Not hype. Not promises. Real work, carefully studied, honestly shared.