Imagine you’re a nurse practitioner (NP) in the emergency department ordering steroids for a patient with an asthma ...

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 ...

While it's true that “racism” has left its fingerprints over medicine, STAT recently began a new investigative series looking at racial bias baked into the clinical algorithms used by physicians. As ...

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. But the ...

Medical algorithms routinely make decisions about patients’ health care, yet they are rife with bias. Health equity must be built into the development and deployment of these health algorithms. When ...