Can AI Help Reduce Disparities in General Medical and Mental Health Care?

Journal: AMA journal of ethics
Published Date: Feb 1, 2019

Abstract

BACKGROUND: As machine learning becomes increasingly common in health care applications, concerns have been raised about bias in these systems' data, algorithms, and recommendations. Simply put, as health care improves for some, it might not improve for all.

Authors

  • Irene Y Chen
    Computational Precision Health, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA.
  • Peter Szolovits
    Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.
  • Marzyeh Ghassemi
    Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States.

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