Forbes November 29, 2022
For AI to flourish in healthcare, the industry must focus on the “algorithmically underserved,” said John D. Halamka, M.D., M.S., president of Mayo Clinic Platform, at the HLTH 2022 conference this month in Las Vegas. Giving visibility to the algorithmically underserved — individuals who do not generate enough data/are not well represented enough in health data sets for AI to make a determination — is just one requirement to overcome the prospect of AI bias in healthcare. And identifying and fixing sources of AI bias must be a focus area for an industry that’s striving for ethical and equitable AI development, shared Halamka.
For example, what if there was a national registry that hosted all the metadata needed to power...