Dear Corner Office
Dear Corner Office
Michele Heyward
Episode 15 : How AI Combats Racial Healthcare Disparities
31 minutes Posted Jun 30, 2020 at 3:00 am.
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Making healthcare more equitable - removing bias from AI to triage and provide a more equitable and powerful virtual assessment. Technologies are mostly built from the perspective of the programmer, the UI/UX designer, and the product manager; however, without a diverse sample population size in the data source or include in the coding language, we purposefully leave out other communities. Therefore, the accuracy and ability for the technology to perform at equitable optimal level decreases. An African American built male has different body mass composition than his Caucasian peer; however, if this is not considered then virtual assessment numbers such as our BMI is misdiagnosed.

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