MedCity News January 11, 2022
In a virtual panel discussion about public and population health at J.P. Morgan’s annual conference, the CEO of Aledade shared how the quest for efficiency in a world of harried physicians’ practices almost led Aledade to use a flawed ML algorithm to engage at-risk patients of those practices.
Achieving healthcare efficiency and reducing costs are increasingly the dual goals that hospitals, payers and providers are aiming for and many are looking toward machine learning algorithms to help deliver these while also avowedly not compromising care quality and patient outcomes. But leveraging AI/ML comes with its own pitfalls and human judgment can make the difference between reinforcing systemic racism and alleviating it.
That was the message of Dr. Farzad Mostashari, former...
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