Fierce Healthcare August 27, 2021
Berkeley, California-based startup Kintsugi is helping clinicians detect depression and anxiety in patients quicker from just their voices.
Founded in 2019 by technologist Grace Chang and machine learning scientist Rima Seiilova-Olson, the company uses artificial intelligence technology to close mental health gaps.
After talking about their own struggles with mental health, the two teamed up. “We clearly saw this, as engineers, as an infrastructure problem,” Chang said.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the percentage of adults with recent symptoms of an anxiety or depressive disorder increased to 41.5% from 36.4% between August 2020 and February 2021.
Among those with mental health conditions, depression is positively identified by healthcare providers 47.3% of the time, according to a...
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