As artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly applied to biomedical research and clinical decisions, developing unbiased AI models that work equally well for all ethnic groups is of crucial importance to health disparity prevention and reduction. H...
Racial disparities in the utilization of epilepsy surgery are well documented, but it is unknown whether a natural language processing (NLP) algorithm trained on physician notes would produce biased recommendations for epilepsy presurgical evaluation...
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 ...
Machine learning is used increasingly in clinical care to improve diagnosis, treatment selection, and health system efficiency. Because machine-learning models learn from historically collected data, populations that have experienced human and struct...
BACKGROUND: African American (AA) individuals are less likely to receive treatment and more likely to die from cancer compared with Caucasian (C) individuals. Recent advancements in surgery and radiation have improved outcomes in early stage non-smal...
Journal of diabetes science and technology
Sep 5, 2018
In the future artificial intelligence (AI) will have the potential to improve outcomes diabetes care. With the creation of new sensors for physiological monitoring sensors and the introduction of smart insulin pens, novel data relationships based on ...
This Perspective discusses 12 key facts derived from 50 years of health services research and argues that this knowledge base can stimulate innovative thinking about how to make health care systems safer, more efficient, more cost effective, and more...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Aug 7, 2025
Bias in artificial intelligence (AI) is a pervasive challenge, often reinforcing systemic inequities in healthcare systems. This paper proposes an innovative framework to repurpose bias in AI, leveraging it as a tool for addressing structural injusti...
International journal of medical informatics
Aug 1, 2025
BACKGROUND: Maternal health disparities are recognized as a significant public health challenge, with pronounced disparities evident across racial, socioeconomic, and geographic dimensions. Although healthcare technologies have advanced, these dispar...
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