Becker's Healthcare May 13, 2022
Giles Bruce

A new study looks at what it will take to reduce bias in healthcare artificial intelligence.

Researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital analyzed four AI models used to predict which people would have the most severe cases of COVID-19 during the pandemic. They found biases against certain groups of people that were often inconsistent among the various models, resulting in less reliable predictions.

“Given that we face systemic bias in our country’s core institutions, we need technologies that will reduce these disparities and not exacerbate them,” the authors wrote in...

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