Digital Mental Health and AI

The afternoon talks include:

• Theme: Digital tools and physical health outcomes in FEP
  Dr Shuqing Si, Research Fellow, Institute for Mental Health, University of Birmingham
   
• Theme: CONNECT Digital Study
  Professor Sandra Bucci, NIHR Research Professor and a Professor of Clinical Psychology, The University of Manchester. Chief Investigator for the CONNECT Study
   
• The future of Psychiatry - AI Agents and Scribes as your new Virtual Assistants
  Dr Peter Yellowlees, Director UCD/UCI Fellowship in Wellbeing, Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry, Dept of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, UC Davis, California 

  Lecture Summary:

  The practice of psychiatry is already changing dramatically post-Covid with the increase in digital mental health tools, especially tele psychiatry. The next wave of change will be the use of Artificial Intelligence which will be increasingly integrated into clinical practice over the next several years. This talk will focus on the use of AI Agents, to automatically interview patients, and AI scribes and ambient AI systems, to draft initial psychiatric notes, markedly reducing time needed by psychiatrists for interviewing and documentation. These AI “virtual assistants” are taking up roles that are similar to those occupied by trainee psychiatrists - they interview and document histories in advance of the psychiatrist seeing the patient - except that they never forget a question or miss documenting an important part of the history. Demonstrations of these AI tools which are already being used in clinical practice will be part of the presentation.
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• Further speaker to be confirmed 

CPD Certificates will be given to attendees.

You will be able to submit questions to the speaker during the event using the Q&A function on Zoom.