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Joseph Thornton MD

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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Joseph Thornton MD

Racial Disparities in AI suicide risk prediction

Racial/Ethnic Disparities in the Performance of Prediction Models for Death by Suicide After Mental Health Visits | Health Disparities | JAMA Psychiatry | JAMA Network

Three problems are highlighted

  1. Due to the low absolute numbers, the predictive accuracy for BIPOC was low and the risk missed at the set parameters
  2. Correcting the sensitivity to capture the BIPCO was associated with high number of false positives
  3. The risk assessment for increased number of law enforcement interactions with BIPOC is not known but could be problematic

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/fullarticle/2778923?guestAccessKey=0e70792a-f563-44d8-af53-62d791587930&utm_source=silverchair&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=article_alert-jamapsychiatry&utm_content=etoc&utm_term=070721

Joseph (Joe) E. Thornton, M.D., DFAPA
Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor, Psychiatry
University of Florida College of Medicine
joethornton@ufl.edu