Psychiatry Realizes the Value and Bias of Big Data and AI
Language and biology meet the unconscious in a world of questionable databases designed to improve the quality of care
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6 min readSep 3, 2020
Cure her of that! Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, raze out the written troubles of the brain, and with some sweet oblivious antidote cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff which weighs upon her heart — Macbeth, William Shakespeare
The current state of big data in psychiatry has evolved from the epidemiologic foundation reported in 1984 and laid well before. The foundation was built on the development of defined diagnosis, diagnostic assessment tools that could be used in large samples…
Psychiatry is an evolving medical profession that is in the process of investigating the utility of…
