Viewpoint

Suicide Risk Models Are Ready—Our Health Systems Are Not

JAMA Psychiatry 10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2026.2397

August 19, 2026 at 11:00 AM EDT

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This Viewpoint argues that suicide risk prediction models are advancing faster than the shared infrastructure health systems need to evaluate, select, and sustain them and proposes a federated framework for closing that gap.

Corresponding Author: Yunyu Xiao, PhD, Department of Population Health Sciences, Weill Cornell Medicine, 575 Lexington Ave, FP650A, New York, NY 10022 (yux4008@med.cornell.edu).

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