This is Part 1 of Embedded Bias, a series revealing how race-based clinical algorithms pervade medicine and why it's so difficult to change them. Pediatrician Alexandra Epee-Bounya had had enough. In ...

People's decisions are known to be influenced by past experiences, including the outcomes of earlier choices. For over a century, psychologists have been trying to shed light on the processes ...

Every day, physicians use clinical algorithms to make decisions about the patients in their exam rooms. To help weigh a patient’s surgical risk or likelihood of disease, they factor in attributes such ...

Feed algorithms are not politically neutral. According to a recent study published in the journal Nature, using the ...

Credit: Getty Images Jim Anderson, MPAS, PA-C, explores the movement to dismantle racism in medicine by eliminating race from clinical algorithms. The team’s goal is to identify harmful race-based ...

It was October 2021, and Imane, a 44-year-old mother of three, was still in pain from the abdominal surgery she had undergone a few weeks earlier. She certainly did not want to be where she was: ...

Aviv Ovadya is affiliated with the the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard, the AI & Democracy Foundation, the newDemocracy Foundation, and the Centre for Governance of AI. Luke Thorburn does not work for ...