Medscape January 11, 2022
Unless designers quickly change their approach, new consumer technologies could worsen disparities in healthcare, activists say.
Many people are unable to pay for devices that can monitor their health conditions, or don’t have good internet connections, or don’t have the education necessary to make use of the devices, according to leaders of advocacy organizations invited to the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2022 Annual Meeting
At the same time, inventors are building their racial, gender, age, and economic biases into the devices and into the artificial intelligence (AI) that analyzes the data the devices produce, the activists say.
“Pulse oximeter, blood pressure monitors, glucometers for people with diabetes, those things are still pretty much out of reach for a lot of...
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