AI Can Remove Bias From Healthcare Decisions, Panel Says
Medical ethicists have long been troubled that racial disparities make their way into healthcare decisions, with worse outcomes for racial minorities and other at-risk classes. Q3 2020 hedge fund letters, conferences and more For example: Black patients in emergency rooms were 40% less likely to be prescribed pain management medication than white patients.Hispanic patients in emergency rooms were 25% less likely to be prescribed pain management medication than white patients.Obese patients are at risk of misdiagnosis if a provider attributes a condition to the co-existing condition of obesity,...