Resource Management

AI can help to improve resource management within the health care system, by locating gaps in the care system, rebalancing resources, and reviewing patient data to identify priority care patients. But how do we ensure that AI systems distribute resources and care fairly? Several case studies show how bias seeping into AI technologies is underserving black and ethnic minority patients.

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Millions of black people affected by racial bias in healthcare algorithms

Study reveals rampant racism in decision-making software used by US hospitals — and highlights ways to correct it. An algorithm widely used in US hospitals to allocate health care to […]

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The Health Pulse: AI Bias in Healthcare

Show Analytics Exchange: Podcasts from SAS, Ep The Health Pulse: AI and Bias in Healthcare – Mar 5, 2021 Data scientist Hiwot Tesfaye joins Greg for a conversation about the […]

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Bias and Discrimination in Healthcare AI Models

AI is helping healthcare organisations determine care management programs and treatment plans – who gets what care – but these models and algorithms can be biased and introduce discrimination in […]

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AI and Bias in Healthcare

This guest panel series examines the use of AI in assisting healthcare, with a particular focus on automating tasks, communicating diagnoses and allocating resources. It examines the sources of bias […]

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Use of AI-based tools for healthcare purposes: a survey study from consumers’ perspectives

This study sheds more light on factors affecting perceived risks and proposes some recommendations on how to practically reduce these concerns. The findings of this study provide implications for research […]

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Understanding Racial Bias in Medical AI Training Data

By Adriana Krasniansky Interest in artificially intelligent (AI) health care has grown at an astounding pace: the global AI health care market is expected to reach $17.8 billion by 2025 […]

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Bias at warp speed: how AI may contribute to the disparities gap in the time of COVID-19

Abstract. The COVID-19 pandemic is presenting a disproportionate impact on minorities in terms of infection rate, hospitalizations, and mortality. In terms of infection rate, hospitalisation and mortality, the Covid-19 pandemic […]

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AI Bias May Worsen COVID-19 Health Disparities for People of Colour

A new article in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association points to the dissemination of “under-developed and potentially biased models” in response to the novel coronavirus. This article […]

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The Potential for AI in healthcare

The complexity and rise of data in healthcare means that artificial intelligence (AI) will increasingly be applied within the field. Several types of AI are already being employed by payers […]

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Is a racially biased algorithm delaying healthcare for one million black people?

Sweeping calculation suggests it could be — but how to fix the problem is unclear. An estimated one million black adults would be transferred earlier for kidney disease if US […]

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How an Algorithm Blocked Kidney Transplants to Black Patients

An algorithm used in the US supposed to estimate kidney function, the severity of the disease and allocation of kidney transplants, is found to be racially skewed, under-allocating necessary resources […]

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Assessing and Mitigating Bias in Medical Artificial Intelligence

Deep learning algorithms using data from homogeneous populations may be difficult to generalise, and potentially exacerbate racial disparities in health and health care. This research paper explores (1) whether the […]

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Racial Bias Found in Health Care Company Algorithm

New York news video reporting on the investigation into UnitedHealth Group over allegations that they are utilising a racially biased algorithm. A new study reports that the new AI software […]

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Can AI Tackle Racial Inequalities in Healthcare?

News article, drawing on a study by Nature Medicine, which explains how algorithms might be able to help tackle racial biases within doctors’ own judgements. Doctors’ judgement of how much […]

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Health Care AI Systems are Biased

This article explains how bias in AI systems is contributing to the exacerbation of racial health disparities. There is a huge issue with the misrepresentation of our data sets, which […]

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