Abstract

Clinical assessment in psychiatry is mostly based on brief, regularly scheduled face-to-face appointments. Although crucial, this approach reduces assessment to cross-sectional observations that often miss critical information about course of disease and risk assessment. Clinicians in-turn make all medical decisions based on this inevitably limited information. We discuss recent technological developments in terms of assessment and information triangulation, analysis of longitudinal data, approaches to enhance medical decision-making and improve communication between patients, caregivers and clinicians.Disclosure of interestThe author has not supplied his declaration of competing interest.

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