Article Excerpt: In a sense, the field of psychiatry is stuck in the past; as clinicians, we are reliant on patients’ self-reports and asking family and friends to let us know if their loved one is showing signs of psychiatric illness. This often contributes to delays in effective care. We need to break free of our antiquated ways and pay more attention to the digital era we live in… Now, in two separate research studies, we have been able to accurately predict a patient’s first psychiatric hospitalization and diagnosis more than a year before it happened.
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Article Source: Psychology Today