Behavioral Health Business August 22, 2022
Digital mental health company Cerebral is using a machine learning algorithm to help pinpoint patients in crisis. And the recently unveiled initiative is “just the beginning” of Cerebral’s use of machine learning-enabled solutions, according to the company.
“Machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) are critical tools in the advancement of mental health care, but these benefits are only possible at scale,” a team of Cerebral researchers explained in a company post. “Both technologies require many data points to test and validate hypotheses in order to prove that the systems are working effectively.”
Dubbed the “Crisis Message Detector 1 (CMD-1),” the newly touted tool is designed to identify messages from patients experiencing a mental health crisis, then refer those patients...