Racial Bias Found in a Major Health Care Risk Algorithm
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on October 20, 2024
October 24, 2019
4 min read
Racial Bias Found in a Major Health Care Risk Algorithm
Black patients lose out on critical care when systems equate health needs with costs
Health care algorithms can reinforce existing inequality.
As organizations increasingly replace human decision-making with algorithms, they may assume these computer programs lack our biases. But algorithms . . .
