Racial Bias Found in a Major Health Care Risk Algorithm
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on January 5, 2024
October 24, 2019
4 min read
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 still reflect the real world, which means they can unintentionally . . .
