Importance Algorithms are commonly incorporated into health care decision tools used by
health systems and payers and thus affect quality of care, access, and health outcomes …

In August 2022 the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a notice of
proposed rulemaking prohibiting covered entities, which include health care providers and …

Importance Health care algorithms are used for diagnosis, treatment, prognosis, risk
stratification, and allocation of resources. Bias in the development and use of algorithms can …

Background: There is increasing concern for the potential impact of health care algorithms
on racial and ethnic disparities. Purpose: To examine the evidence on how health care …

Algorithms are currently used to assist in a wide array of health care decisions. Despite the
general utility of these health care algorithms, there is growing recognition that they may …

As the use of artificial intelligence has spread rapidly throughout the US health care system,
concerns have been raised about racial and ethnic biases built into the algorithms that often …

Article-at-a-Glance Background Racial and ethnic disparities in health care have been
consistently documented in the diagnosis, treatment, and outcomes of many common …

The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety is believed to be a first step
toward Pay for Performance (P4P). 7 The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services reduces …

Our recent paper in Science showed that an algorithm widely used for population health
management has significant racial bias. The scale of impact is large, affecting health care …

An algorithm widely used in US hospi-tals to allocate health care to patients has been
systematically discriminating against black people, a sweeping analysis has found. The …