How can we leverage technology for better suicide prevention?

Technology hasn't yet played the role many expected it would in helping to prevent suicides. But leveraging digital health and machine learning in three areas believed to contribute to suicide deaths could go far in helping save people's lives, says a "Viewpoint" column published in JAMA Psychiatry. The AMA is spearheading initiatives that put physicians at the center of digital health innovation. See how you can get involved. "The current, limited technological advances in suicide prevention do not reflect a failure of technology or big data, but rather a need to realign research aims and clinical use with prevention research that address the upstream suicide risk that precedes suicide crisis," wrote psychiatrist John Torous, MD, and clinical psychologist Rheeda Walker, PhD.