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Decision aids that U.S. physicians use to guide patient care on everything from who receives heart surgery to who needs kidney care and who should try to give birth vaginally are racially biased, ...

Artificial intelligence algorithms are everywhere in healthcare. They sort through patients’ data to predict who will develop medical conditions like heart disease or diabetes, they help doctors ...

When it comes to our health, it’s personal. That is why it is so important that the physicians we trust make decisions about our care—not machines. And yet, in many situations, artificial intelligence ...

In the last decade or so, artificial intelligence has found its way into just about every technology-heavy sector of society. From music recommendation services to targeted advertising, machines ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) and algorithmic decision-making systems — algorithms that analyze massive amounts of data and make predictions about the future — are increasingly affecting Americans’ ...

Medical algorithms are used across the health-care spectrum to diagnose disease, offer prognoses, monitor patients’ health and assist with administrative tasks such as appointment scheduling. But the ...