Renton, Wash.-based Providence is participating in a federally funded research initiative to develop an AI model designed to predict and manage mental health and substance use crises.
The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health awarded the software company Ksana Health a $17.9 million contract under its Evident initiative to develop the Large Health Behavior Model, according to a May 14 Providence news release. Providence will help recruit up to 25,000 adult patients for the two-year project.
Participants will download Ksana’s behavioral health app to their smartphones and complete activities over three months. They also will consent to share EHR data for the project, according to the release. Recruitment is expected to begin this summer across the health system’s seven-state footprint.
The project aims to develop AI models trained on smartphone and wearable device data, including sleep, mobility, physical activity, social connection and language patterns linked to electronic health records. Providence said the effort is intended to improve early intervention and prediction of behavioral health conditions.
Columbia, Md.-based MedStar Health Research Institute also will recruit patients for the study, while the University of Washington’s Paul Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering will lead computational modeling efforts.
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