A new study from the National Institute of Standards and Technology confirmed what other research has previously shown: Many facial recognition algorithms perform better on white people than on people ...

The study shows that personalized medicine demands new competences that extend beyond traditional medical training.

A new study in the journal Science concludes that a widely-used algorithm used by providers to determine the complexity of healthcare needs has an inherent bias against African-American patients. The ...

Doctors use algorithms to help guide their medical care, such as whether a patient should get breast cancer screening or whether they should undergo a cesarean section to give birth — but many of ...

A new study finds racial bias in an algorithm from Optum that is widely used by health systems. The algorithm helps hospitals identify high-risk patients, such as those who have chronic conditions, to ...

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