Suicide is a top ten killer in the US and the rates have been increasing for two decades. At risk patients are more likely to need help in the middle of the night, and our healthcare system just isn’t designed for that. Former chief medical officer of medical and digital innovation at Magellan Health, Dr. Seth Feuerstein, thinks he has the answer: the future of suicide prevention is software. Find out why software is the best catalyst for this type of behavior change, and why he thinks software will be to diseases of the brain, what genetic testing has been to cancer.

Filmed at AHIP’s Consumer Experience & Digital Health Forum in Nashville, TN, December 2018.

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