Algorithmic biases in US healthcare
Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2020 9:24 am
https://www.wired.com/story/lawmakers-d ... lgorithms/
From a link in the blogpost mentioned here:IN AUGUST, A group of Black former NFL players filed a lawsuit against the league claiming its system for awarding compensation for brain injuries was racially tilted. The suit blamed the NFL’s use of a health care algorithm that assumes white people have intrinsically higher cognitive function than Black people.
The NFL called the suit “misguided.” But Thursday, four Democratic lawmakers asked the Department of Health and Human Services to investigate that cognitive assessment tool and other health care algorithms that use race as a factor. Their letter warns that including race in such calculations could cause doctors to make decisions that worsen health outcomes for people of color.
sTeamTraen wrote: Mon Sep 28, 2020 12:04 pm The always-entertaing (although sometimes his own worst enemy) science blogger Leonid Schneider has some thoughts on this.