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From powerful diagnostic algorithms to finely-tuned surgical robots, artificial intelligence (AI) in the healthcare industry has vast potential. A few good examples in use today include Radiology, Drug Discovery, Patient Risk Identification, and Primary Care/Triage.


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This Teen Shared Her Troubles With a Robot. Could AI ‘Chatbots’ Solve the Youth Mental Health Crisis?

This story is part of a series produced in partnership with The Guardian exploring the increasing role of artificial intelligence and surveillance in our everyday lives during the pandemic, including in schools. Fifteen-year-old Jordyne Lewis was stressed out.  ...

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This Teen Shared Her Troubles With a Robot. Could AI ‘Chatbots’ Solve the Youth Mental Health Crisis?

This Teen Shared Her Troubles With a Robot. Could AI ‘Chatbots’ Solve the Youth Mental Health Crisis?

This story is part of a series produced in partnership with The Guardian exploring the increasing role of artificial intelligence and surveillance in our everyday lives during the pandemic, ...

Young and depressed? Try Woebot! The rise of mental health chatbots in the US

Young and depressed? Try Woebot! The rise of mental health chatbots in the US

Schools are encouraging students to use mental health chatbots to address a surge in depression and anxiety. Critics worry they’re a Band-Aid solution unsupported by evidence

4 Ways to Improve Mental Health Through Digital Health

4 Ways to Improve Mental Health Through Digital Health

Jill Seidman, VP OF Medicaid Transformation Project at AVIA shares four ways that digital health can help improve mental health.

What Role Could Artificial Intelligence Play in Mental Healthcare?

What Role Could Artificial Intelligence Play in Mental Healthcare?

Artificial intelligence in mental healthcare could increase access and affordability, but there are several challenges to using the technology in this space.

A Covid-19 surge of depression and anxiety is being treated by robots

A Covid-19 surge of depression and anxiety is being treated by robots

A majority of workers are more comfortable sharing their mental health struggles with a robot than a boss. Experts are divided on whether AI is up to the task.

Boosting access to mental health care during pandemic and beyond

Boosting access to mental health care during pandemic and beyond

Discover how the AMA is uniting an array of medical specialties so patients’ mental health needs can be better addressed in the primary care setting.

These are the top 10 innovations in mental health

These are the top 10 innovations in mental health

COVID-19’s effects on our collective and individual wellbeing forced the world to confront mental health challenges like never before, and innovative thinkers have stepped up to the ...

AI’s Potential to Diagnose and Treat Mental Illness

AI’s Potential to Diagnose and Treat Mental Illness

With the right safeguards in place, technology can help fill a gap in mental health care.

Expanding Behavioral Health Access For Underserved Populations: Solomé Tibebu's Mission

Expanding Behavioral Health Access For Underserved Populations: Solomé Tibebu's Mission

Solomé Tibebu always knew that technology would drive opportunities in behavioral health care access and treatment, with her personal journey with mental illness starting as a teen.

Mental Health and the Covid-19 Pandemic

Mental Health and the Covid-19 Pandemic

Perspective from The New England Journal of Medicine — Mental Health and the Covid-19 Pandemic

Out of the Shadows — Honoring World Mental Health Day

Out of the Shadows — Honoring World Mental Health Day

In observance of World Mental Health Day, we salute the army of Health Transformers that are making mental health a global priority

Colorado Isn’t Prepared To Deal With the Mental Health Fallout From COVID-19

Colorado Isn’t Prepared To Deal With the Mental Health Fallout From COVID-19

Coloradans have dealt with a lot, and mental health professionals are worried about the long-term effects of that trauma.

‘Nobody Has Openings’: Mental Health Providers Struggle to Meet Demand

‘Nobody Has Openings’: Mental Health Providers Struggle to Meet Demand

With anxiety and depression on the rise during the pandemic, it has been challenging for people to get the help they need.

Artificial Intelligence and Mental Health

Artificial Intelligence and Mental Health

A study conducted this year showed that 18% of adults in the United States have a mental health condition; that's is over 43 million Americans. The epidemic is growing as mental health and ...

America can't wait: It's time for a Marshall Plan for mental health

America can't wait: It's time for a Marshall Plan for mental health

Our frontline health care workers and first responders — much like our returning war veterans — will need wide scale treatment for PTSD.

Youthful Advisers Help Shape a Mental Health Program for Their Peers

Youthful Advisers Help Shape a Mental Health Program for Their Peers

Officials are enthusiastic about the Allcove initiative, modeled on an Australian program. But it will need to show effectiveness and find funding.

Your AI Chatbot Therapist Isn’t Sure What It’s Doing

Your AI Chatbot Therapist Isn’t Sure What It’s Doing

In 1966, Joseph Weizenbaum created Eliza, the first psychotherapy chatbot. Eliza’s programming was relatively simple: Engage the user by detecting keywords in their statements and reflect ...

Christian Porter will no doubt get access to the best mental health care. Thousands of at-risk women aren’t so lucky.

Christian Porter will no doubt get access to the best mental health care. Thousands of at-risk women aren’t so lucky.

Christian Porter took mental health leave after being identified as the politician accused of the historical rape of 16-yearold girl.

How to Prepare for the Coming Mental Health Pandemic

How to Prepare for the Coming Mental Health Pandemic

The psychological damage from disasters like Covid-19 can last for years. Here’s what we should do now — including create a national, 3-digit suicide hotline.