Health Alert: Racially biased medical algorithm anticipates extra care for whites over sicker black patients, amplifying long-standing disparities
A widely used computer model that predicts which patients will benefit from extra medical care dramatically underestimates the health needs of the sickest black patients, researchers have found. The same bias almost certainly exists in tools used by private companies, nonprofit health systems and government agencies to manage the health care of about 200 million people in the United States each year.
A widely used computer model that predicts which patients will benefit from extra medical care dramatically underestimates the health needs of the sickest black patients, researchers have found. The same bias almost certainly exists in tools used by private companies, nonprofit health systems and government agencies to manage the health care of about 200 million people in the United States each year.
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