Artificial intelligence algorithms are everywhere in healthcare. They sort through patients’ data to predict who will develop medical conditions like heart disease or diabetes, they help doctors ...

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

AI is increasingly finding its way into healthcare decisions, from diagnostics to treatment decisions to robotic surgery. As I’ve written about in this newsletter many times, AI is sweeping the ...

The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation awarded more than $10 million in grant money to five medical organizations last month to study and address the “potentially dangerous” consequences of race misuse ...

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’ ...

New York City announced a recent effort to end race adjustments in clinical algorithms used by the city's hospitals. Experts say these adjustments perpetuate racist assumptions in healthcare and can ...

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 ...

It’s one thing to develop a medical algorithm, quite another to prove that it actually works. To do that, you need one crucial thing that’s hard to come by: medical data. And one startup is ready to ...

For better accountability, we should shift the focus from the design of these systems to their impact. Getty Describing a decision-making system as an “algorithm” is often a way to deflect ...