Dissecting Racial Bias in an Algorithm Used to Manage the Health of Populations

Copyright
2019
Published By
American Association for the Advancement of Science

This study shows that a widely used healthcare algorithm that uses healthcare cost as a proxy for health exhibits significant racial bias. The authors suggest that the choice of convenient, seemingly effective proxies for ground truth can be an important source of algorithmic bias in many contexts.

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Racism

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Disparities in Healthcare