Both physicians and patients need to stop viewing technological tools as threats
A recent study published in Science, one of the world’s leading academic journals, found that a predictive health care algorithm discriminated against black patients.
The tool, created by Optum, was designed to identify high-risk patients with untreated chronic diseases, thereby helping administrators re-distribute medical resources to those who’d benefit the most. But there was a glitch in the algorithm, according to researchers. Rather than ranking the needs …