Big Data will change Psychiatry

https://time.com/6076797/big-data-psychiatry/

This Time Magazine article by a new faculty psychiatrist at Harvard University describes a potential paradigm shift in psychiatric diagnosis. The National Institutes of Mental Health has initiated an $82.5 million five year program to partner with private organizations to harness big data, especially data collected from smart devices, to identify new patterns of conditions as opposed to checklist of symptoms.

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