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?
New Algorithms Could Reduce Racial Disparities in Health Care
Machine learning programs trained with patients’ own reports find problems that doctors miss—especially in Black people. Full study here: https://go.nature.com/3pnOwWP