Health practitioners are increasingly concerned that because race is a social construct, and the biological mechanisms of how race affects clinical outcomes are often unknown, including race in ...

Aletha Maybank, chief health equity officer of the American Medical Association (AMA), opened the workshop and explained that the AMA in 2020 called for ridding the nation’s health care system of ...

As the use of artificial intelligence has spread rapidly throughout the US health care system, concerns have been raised about racial and ethnic biases built into the algorithms that often guide ...

Every day, physicians use clinical algorithms to make decisions about the patients in their exam rooms. To help weigh a patient’s surgical risk or likelihood of disease, they factor in attributes such ...

Katie covers the impact of health technology on patients, clinicians, and businesses. Her stories explore the price tag of clinical AI, digital health at the FDA, and the boom in direct-to-consumer ...

Imagine you’re a nurse practitioner (NP) in the emergency department ordering steroids for a patient with an asthma exacerbation. You order the steroid to be given orally, which the patient is able to ...

Based on the comprehensive findings of a review, investigators outline several crucial policy implications, each designed to address the complex issue of bias mitigation in clinical algorithms ...

Clinician-scientists in the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai developed a clinical algorithm that, for the first time, distinguishes between treatable sudden cardiac arrest and untreatable forms ...

Cropped shot of a doctor using a digital tablet in a hospital Biased algorithms in health care can lead to inaccurate diagnoses. Clinicians should decide which variables to include to achieve fair ...