Fierce Healthcare August 1, 2019
Most psychiatrists don’t foresee artificial intelligence replacing human doctors in performing complex psychiatric tasks, but they do anticipate the technology having an impact on their jobs.
Healthcare researchers have been exploring the use of artificial intelligence to help diagnose post-traumatic stress disorder by analyzing a patient’s speech and to help treat anxiety and depression.
Could AI replace a psychiatrist’s role in providing mental health care? Most psychiatrists don’t see AI making their jobs obsolete, according to a recent survey from Sermo, a social platform for physicians.
Sermo teamed up with psychiatry and health technology researchers at Duke University School of Medicine and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center at Harvard Medical School to query nearly 800 psychiatrists in 22 countries about...