A commentary advocates the proper application of artificial intelligence in healthcare and warns of the dangers when machine learning algorithms are misused. An international team of researchers ...

That suggests the algorithm may be from Optum, owned by insurer UnitedHealth, which says its product that attempts to predict patient risks, including costs, is used to “manage more than 70 ...

The algorithm wasn’t intentionally racist — in fact, it specifically excluded race. Instead, to identify patients who would benefit from more medical support, the algorithm used a seemingly ...

A study published Thursday in Science has found that a health care risk-prediction algorithm, a major example of tools used on more than 200 million people in the U.S., demonstrated racial bias ...

Programming and prejudice: Computer scientists discover how to find bias in algorithms. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2015 / 08 / 150814193120.htm ...

Second, the program originally had the hospitals doing the proposing, giving their preferences a slight edge over students’. By 1997, the NRMP had updated the algorithm to address both these issues.