Brief Description: Commercial algorithms are often used in guiding health decisions. However, one widely used algorithm contains significant racial bias, drastically reducing the number of Black patients identified for extra care and spending less money on Black patients who have the same level of healthcare needs.
Dissecting racial bias in an algorithm used to manage the health of populations, Obermeyer Z, Powers B, Vogeli C, Mullainathan S. Science, 2019
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