This is Part 1 of Embedded Bias, a series revealing how race-based clinical algorithms pervade medicine and why it's so difficult to change them. Pediatrician Alexandra Epee-Bounya had had enough. In ...

Algorithms are ubiquitous in medicine. They can take the form of a flowchart, a simple equation, or a complicated AI model, and are used to help clinicians diagnose diseases, predict the chances of ...

Retrospective use of a novel scoring algorithm reduced unnecessary preoperative cardiology referrals for patients receiving bariatric surgery.

Many health systems depend on prediction algorithms to identify and help patients with various health conditions. Some of these algorithms exhibit significant racial bias, resulting in millions of ...

It was October 2021, and Imane, a 44-year-old mother of three, was still in pain from the abdominal surgery she had undergone a few weeks earlier. She certainly did not want to be where she was: ...

Australia's government confirmed on Tuesday that it would seek to implement legislation to enable all social media users to ...