From oximeters to AI, where bias in medical devices may lurk
Analysis: issues with some gadgets could contribute to poorer outcomes for women and people of colour
A Drug Addiction Risk Algorithm and Its Grim Toll on Chronic Pain Sufferers
A sweeping AI has become central to how the US handles the opioid crisis. It may only be making the crisis worse.
With the creeping privatisation of our National Health Services, could the U.K. see similar opaque algorithms creating barriers here?
Checkpoints for vaccine passports
Digital vaccine passports are novel technologies, built on uncertain and evolving science. By creating infrastructure for segregation and risk scoring at an individual level, and enabling third-parties to access health information, they bring profound risks to individual rights and concepts of equity in society.
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Inside the ‘Covid Triangle’: a catastrophe years in the making | Free to read
High levels of deprivation and job insecurity, vast income inequality, housing discrimination and medical disparities have long had a severe impact on the tangle of communities and ethnic minority populations that live in these boroughs. But when combined with the necessity to go to work, to take public transport and to share space in densely packed housing, they also provided the perfect breeding ground for a deadly virus. The domino effect would prove catastrophic.
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Actor David Harewood's BBC documentary explores why people of colour are more likely to die from Covid-19.