A new study of Veterans Health Administration data shows that the Care Assessment Needs (CAN) algorithm — a tool used to predict whether veterans will be hospitalized or die in the 90 days after their ...

“Is omitting race and ethnicity as a predictor in colorectal cancer recurrence risk prediction models associated with racial and ethnic bias?” is the main question Dr. Aasthaa Bansal, an associate ...

This is Part 1 of Embedded Bias, a series revealing how race-based clinical algorithms pervade medicine and why it's so difficult to change them. Pediatrician Alexandra Epee-Bounya had had enough. In ...

Methods of treating fungal infections, like bacterial infections, are changing due to increasing resistance to drugs, and fungal infections also play a major role in hospital-acquired infections.

Researchers from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm to help speed up the process of matching potential volunteers to relevant clinical ...

Many health systems depend on prediction algorithms to identify and help patients with various health conditions. Some of these algorithms exhibit significant racial bias, resulting in millions of ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . CMSS’ new initiative will look to improve patient care by ensuring equity is encoded in algorithms. The ...

Usha Lee McFarling is a former STAT reporter. Katie Palmer covers telehealth, clinical artificial intelligence, and the health data economy — with an emphasis on the impacts of digital health care for ...