Fierce Healthcare May 28, 2024
From automating administrative tasks to clinical decision support, the use cases for artificial intelligence in healthcare continue to multiply. One unique approach is the use of natural language processing to gauge the risk of suicide among behavioral health patients.
At the same time, rates have been rising, according to estimates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In 2022, suicide claimed more than 49,400 lives in the U.S. Just a few years before that, its impact was estimated to cost the U.S. more than $1 trillion. The signs of suicidal ideation can be difficult to detect; the majority of people who die by suicide had visited their primary care physician in the year leading up to their death....
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