SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRIGGERING MENTAL HEALTHCARE SERVICES BASED ON PREDICTION OF CRITICAL EVENTS

A system for triggering mental healthcare services based on prediction of critical events receives both structured data and unstructured data about mental healthcare patients. Feature extraction is performed, thereby generating records of structured data, and strings of vectors of unstructured data. The system makes a quality assessment about the structured data, and a quality assessment about the unstructured data. In a model selection step, the system selects one model out of a plurality of selectable models, where the selection is made based on the quality assessments made. The selected model is trained with records of structured data and with strings of vectors of unstructured data. New real-time data is supplied to the trained model so that the trained model predicts whether a crisis event is likely to occur. If the system predicts that a crisis event is likely to occur, then the system outputs an alert.