AXIOS September 18, 2023
Ryan Heath

The health system in Britain is now deploying AI-powered mental health tools in large-scale clinical settings, while U.S. health insurance companies are trialing them.

Why it matters: AI may be able to help health systems address an overload of patients in need of mental health care.

Driving the news: A diagnostic “e-triage” tool from Limbic, a British AI startup, has screened more than 210,000 patients with a claimed 93% accuracy across the eight most common mental disorders, including depression, anxiety and PTSD, co-founder Ross Harper, a computational neuroscientist, told Axios.

  • The U.K. National Health Service found that the Limbic Access chatbot arms its psychologists and psychiatrists with information to help them determine the severity and urgency of a potential...

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Topics: AI (Artificial Intelligence), Mental Health, Patient / Consumer, Physician, Provider, Technology
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