MedCity News September 24, 2024
The integration of AI into mental healthcare is more advanced than many realize because it’s not always obvious; frequently, it’s providing support to free up clinicians to spend more time with their patients or to get more patients into treatment.
Despite OpenAI’s most recent news that it’s releasing new AI models with reasoning capabilities to “spend more time thinking through problems before they respond, much like a person would,” AI maintains a synthetic perception. Frequently seen as a technology that creates distance between individuals, people view the medium as one that automates and depersonalizes tasks traditionally done by humans.
In the realm of mental healthcare, the personal touch is critical. How we relate and interact with people is...