LIV
AI-powered psychiatric triage – built at Sheba, deployed at scale
Developed at Sheba’s ARC Innovation Center, LIV is an AI-powered clinical decision support platform that autonomously conducts psychiatric intake, assesses case severity, and directs patients to the right level of care.
When AI Streamlines the Entry Into Care
Approved for clinical use by Israel’s Ministry of Health in 2026, LIV is now in active deployment at Sheba Medical Center and is already drawing interest from health organizations around the globe.
LIV is designed to support clinicians, not replace them. By automating intake and triage with the use of AI, the platform frees mental health professionals to focus on the work that can’t go without human judgment, while ensuring no patient falls through the cracks.
“LIV is part of ARC; this is the uniqueness of Sheba, that it could not have been done anywhere else, and we very much appreciate Sheba for that.”
– Prof. Mark Weiser, Former Director of Sheba Division of Psychiatry, active researcher, and professor of psychiatry
“Technology will never replace the human therapist, but it can enable more availability for what is sometimes lost in the workload—attentiveness and empathy.”
– Dr. Asaf Caspi, Director of Sheba Division of Psychiatry
Key Advantages
LIV supports more personalized care through multilingual voice avatars, intuitive interfaces, and mobile-desktop integration while strengthening clinical decision-making.
Operationally, it is designed to extend impact at scale by accelerating intake and triage, supporting clinician productivity, and helping improve outcomes in PTSD, anxiety, and depression.
Using the power of artificial intelligence, LIV is on call twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, performing initial intake and triage assessments with 92% accuracy.
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