MedCity News July 21, 2024
To make mental health screening a routine part of primary care, we need innovative solutions. Emerging technologies, particularly artificial intelligence (AI), are paving the way.
Depending on your age, sex, and medical history, you’ve most likely had a screening test at some point during a GP visit — whether it’s a cholesterol test to detect early signs of heart disease, a Pap test for cervical cancer, a prostate specific antigen (PSA) test for prostate cancer, and so on.
Screening tests have been one of the great successes of modern healthcare — enabling the identification of diseases long before any externally visible symptoms show up, and thus allowing for timely intervention. Pap tests alone have been associated with a reduction...