The University of Maryland Medical System is doing away with an algorithm that for decades determined the kidney health of patients. The calculations from blood tests may have stripped thousands of ...

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Algorithms in clinical decision tools have been making it harder for certain racial and socioeconomic groups to receive the healthcare they deserve.

In the last decade or so, artificial intelligence has found its way into just about every technology-heavy sector of society. From music recommendation services to targeted advertising, machines ...

While it's true that “racism” has left its fingerprints over medicine, STAT recently began a new investigative series looking at racial bias baked into the clinical algorithms used by physicians. As ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) and algorithmic decision-making systems — algorithms that analyze massive amounts of data and make predictions about the future — are increasingly affecting Americans’ ...

Medical algorithms are used across the health-care spectrum to diagnose disease, offer prognoses, monitor patients’ health and assist with administrative tasks such as appointment scheduling. But the ...