{"id":32361,"date":"2016-12-03T01:46:47","date_gmt":"2016-12-03T09:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/new-ai-mental-health-tools-beat-human-doctors-at-assessing-patients"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:00:18","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:00:18","slug":"new-ai-mental-health-tools-beat-human-doctors-at-assessing-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/new-ai-mental-health-tools-beat-human-doctors-at-assessing-patients","title":{"rendered":"New AI Mental Health Tools Beat Human Doctors at Assessing Patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-ai-mental-health-tools-beat-human-doctors-at-assessing-patients.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the bad news.<\/p>\n<p>The good news is that mental health professionals have smarter tools than ever before, with artificial intelligence-related technology coming to the forefront to help diagnose patients, often with much greater accuracy than humans.<\/p>\n<p>A new study published in the journal <i>Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior<\/i>, for example, showed that machine learning is up to 93 percent accurate in identifying a suicidal person. The research, led by John Pestian, a professor at Cincinnati Children\u2019s Hospital Medical Center, involved 379 teenage patients from three area hospitals.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2016\/12\/02\/new-ai-mental-health-tools-beat-human-doctors-at-assessing-patients\/?utm_content=buffercf7bf&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook-hub&utm_campaign=buffer\">http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2016\/12\/02\/new-ai-mental-health-to...ign=buffer<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That\u2019s the bad news. The good news is that mental health professionals have smarter tools than ever before, with artificial intelligence-related technology coming to the forefront to help diagnose patients, often with much greater accuracy than humans. A new study published in the journal Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, for example, showed that machine learning is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":411,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/411"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32361"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65663,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32361\/revisions\/65663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}