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How Wearable AI Is Helping Those With Mental Illness
Complex health monitoring will save lives and money
It will relieve spending and resources presently directed at emergency services along with costly treatments for late-stage conditions.
Lately I’ve been commenting extensively on artificial intelligence and mental illness. Well, in this piece, I get to combine them and talk about both. I’ll be detailing some of the technology that already exists on your smart watch, and others just around the corner; which will be powerfully instrumental in monitoring and even treating many psychological conditions.
Much of what I’ll be getting into I, in fact, learned from a book that was just published on May 4th. It’s entitled We Can Do Better by David Goldbloom, A professor at the University of Toronto. Per the subtitle, it’s all about Urgent Innovations To Improve Mental Health Access & Care.
The burgeoning industry of health monitoring
There is a rapidly expanding realm in the field of health monitoring — principally through wearables like smart watches and Fitbits, often synchronized through your smartphone — which gathers immensely sophisticated data about your…
