NEWPORT BEACH, CA -- Sixty-two million American employees live with mental illness and 46 percent receive no treatment. Scienza Health today announced that GIA, the company’s 510(k) cleared lifelike Digital Human, now screens for depression at 81.6% accuracy, anxiety at 77.5%, and PTSD at 80% from a 40-second natural conversation -- no forms, no questionnaires, no clinician required in the room.
GIA sits across from the employee on a Samsung tablet and conducts the screening conversation in any of 92 languages -- by video, voice, or landline. She screens for 46 cognitive, behavioral, and neurological conditions from a single session. She transcribes the conversation into structured clinical notes, assigns billing codes, and writes results back to the health record -- complete with video, speech data, and clinical findings for the clinician’s review and approval. Results arrive in 60 seconds. No staff required during screening.
GIA does not ask employees to self-report symptoms they may not recognize or be willing to disclose. She listens. During the conversation GIA’s speech biomarker engine analyzes 2,500+ acoustic and linguistic signals -- pause ratio, speech rate, vocal energy, pitch variability, semantic coherence, and word-finding patterns -- that are clinically associated with depression, anxiety, PTSD, burnout, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and 15 other behavioral health conditions. The employee speaks naturally. GIA produces a clinically validated screening result in 60 seconds. A licensed clinician reviews and approves every result before it enters the record.
Employee Assistance Programs -- designed to be the first line of support -- see utilization rates between 3 and 6 percent. Not because the programs are broken, but because employees do not know they need them until the crisis has already arrived. Untreated depression costs employers an average of $4,426 per employee per year in lost productivity. The cost is not visible in a line item. It shows up in absenteeism, presenteeism, turnover, and disability claims that no one connects back to a condition that was never screened for.
The Opportunity for Employers and EAP Providers
GIA does not replace EAP programs. She identifies who needs them -- before the crisis, not after.
- For EAP providers: GIA transforms a 3 percent utilization rate into clinical intelligence. She identifies employees who would benefit from services and routes them with evidence already in hand -- not a self-reported survey, but a clinician-reviewed screening grounded in speech biomarker analysis
- For employers: GIA makes behavioral health screening as routine as a blood pressure check. She runs in any setting -- employer wellness programs, primary care offices, EAP intake sessions, telehealth environments, and on-site clinics. Deployed on Samsung Health Grade Galaxy devices secured by Samsung Knox, integrated with Epic, Cerner, and MatrixCare
- For benefits brokers and consultants: GIA is a new category of product to recommend. She is 510(k) cleared, HIPAA compliant, and clinically validated across 19 peer-reviewed studies from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, NIH, and MIT
“We have been stuck in a reactive model. We wait for employees to self-identify, self-refer, and self-advocate for care they do not know they need. That model fails 46 percent of the workforce.”
— David Kaiser, CEO and co-founder, Scienza Health
“Access to behavioral health screening should not require a referral, a waiting room, or a clinician who has 20 minutes they do not have. GIA provides the screening conversation in 40 seconds.”
— David Kaiser, CEO and co-founder, Scienza Health
Contact: david@scienzahealth.com | scienzahealth.com Note to editors: GIA screens. She does not diagnose. All GIA outputs are reviewed and approved by a licensed clinician before entering the clinical record. GIA does not replace Employee Assistance Programs. She identifies employees who would benefit from them.
About Scienza Health
Scienza Health builds digitalhumanOS™ and GIA® — the world’s first cleared digital human and clinical AI operating system purpose-built for post-acute and long-term care. GIA® screens for 46 clinical conditions using Voice AI, Computer Vision, and Speech Biomarkers in a single patient conversation lasting under five minutes. The platform is powered by 12.3 million longitudinal PAC/LTC patient records and 27 billion clinical events. 510(k) registered. HIPAA compliant. Bundled on Samsung Health Grade Galaxy devices. Headquartered in Newport Beach, California.
Note to editors: digitalhumanOS™ and GIA® are trademarks of Scienza Health, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
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