A team of researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai has developed a new method to identify and reduce biases ...

In the morning, before you even open your eyes, your wearable device has already checked your vitals. By the time you brush ...

Last month, I watched a resident dismiss a concerning symptom in a black patient partly because the hospital's risk ...

Some algorithms used in the clinical space are severely under-regulated in the U.S. The U.S Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and its subagency the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are ...

This can affect medical diagnosis and treatment. But debate over 'race corrections' is heating up. Consumer Reports explains why medical algorithms have a race problem.

Medical algorithms are used across the health-care spectrum to diagnose disease, offer prognoses, monitor patients’ health and assist with administrative tasks such as appointment scheduling ...

An algorithm used by major hospitals and healthcare providers misjudged how sick black patients were compared with their white counterparts, allowing ...

Artificial intelligence algorithms are everywhere in healthcare. They sort through patients’ data to predict who will develop medical conditions like heart disease or diabetes, they help doctors ...

A coalition of medical experts from New York City hospitals has pledged to tackle racially biased computer algorithms that are used to diagnose diseases or decide routes of patient care.

Funds were granted to five organizations to reconsider the use of race in medical algorithms as the medical industry is increasingly scrutinizing centuries of practice that used race as an ...

Using an algorithm they call the Krakencoder, researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine are a step closer to unraveling how the brain's wiring supports the way we think and act. The study, published ...