New center uses technology to identify, mitigate suicide risk

Aim is to integrate best practices into clinical settings
A new UMass Chan Medical School center plans to use technology to assist with identifying and mitigating suicide risk.
Funded by a five-year, $17 million National Institute of Mental Health grant, the Center for Accelerating Practices to End Suicide through Technology Translation (CAPES) will collaborate with UMass Memorial Health, UMass Lowell, UMass Amherst, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Zero Suicide Institute, and more than 100 other institutions.
According to CAPES Co-Director Edwin Boudreaux, Ph.D., psychologist and professor of emergency medicine, the initiative is focused on finding ways to accelerate best practices into clinical care settings such as emergency departments,...