Dissecting racial bias in an algorithm used to manage the health of populations
Ziad Obermeyer, Brian W. Powers, et al. Vogeli C
Abstract
Short summary: Dissecting racial bias in health care systems revealed that a type of software program, which determines who receives access to high-risk health care management, routinely accepts healthier whites ahead of blacks who are less healthy.
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