This is Part 1 of Embedded Bias, a series revealing how race-based clinical algorithms pervade medicine and why it's so difficult to change them. Pediatrician Alexandra Epee-Bounya had had enough. In ...

AI is increasingly finding its way into healthcare decisions, from diagnostics to treatment decisions to robotic surgery. As I’ve written about in this newsletter many times, AI is sweeping the ...

Algorithms in clinical decision tools have been making it harder for certain racial and socioeconomic groups to receive the healthcare they deserve.

Several years ago, teams of scholars published groundbreaking research that pointed to racial biases in algorithms that helped direct patient care at major health systems in the U.S. Those algorithms, ...

Meghan Abate '25 is a neuroscience major and an economics minor and she is a 2024-25 health care ethics intern at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University. Views are her own.

In a world where we're 99.5% genetically identical, somehow skin color still decides who gets a spot on the kidney transplant list. (Because why fix something when it's clearly broken?) My ...

While it's true that “racism” has left its fingerprints over medicine, STAT recently began a new investigative series looking at racial bias baked into the clinical algorithms used by physicians. As ...