Tag: Healthcare
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Amazon’s $3.9 billion One Medical Acquisition is Already Raising Data Privacy Concerns
Author: Clint Rainey; Publisher: Fast Company; Publication Year: 2022. The following article discusses how Amazon recently acquired One Medical, a subscription-based healthcare services company. There are concerns over what Amazon will do with the protected…
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Great Promise but Potential for Peril
Artificial Intelligence, Automation, Decision-Making, Discrimination, Healthcare, Hiring Software, Human Judgement, Machine Learning, Product Development, Surveillance, Unconscious BiasAuthor: Christina Pazzanese Publisher: The Harvard Gazette Publication Year: 2020 Summary: The following article starts off by talking about all the different ways in which AI or machine learning can help improve society and business.…
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Overcoming AI Bias to Empower an Equitable Society
Author: Caslee Sims; Publisher: SAS; Publication Year: 2021. The following article talks about how algorithms and predictive models in health care and criminal justice can change the trajectory of someone’s life. Caslee provides two important…
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Racial Bias in a Medical Algorithm Favors White Patients over Sicker Black Patients
Algorithmic Bias, Algorithms, Cultural Misunderstandings, Healthcare, Racial Bias, Racial Equity, Unconscious BiasAuthor: Carolyn Y. Johnson; Publisher: The Washington Post; Publication Year: 2019. The following article describes how algorithms are created with the intention of eliminating bias, such as racial bias, but there are variables that can…
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Ethical Issues Arising Due to Bias in Training A.I. Algorithms in Healthcare and Data Sharing as a Potential Solution
Author: Bilwaj Gaonkar Ph.D., Kirstin Cook B.A., Luke Macyszyn M.D.; Publisher: The AI Ethics Journal; Publication Year: 2020. The following article features authors that explain that each time a human makes a decision in modeling,…
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Data Ethics & Privacy: Doing the Right Thing with Data
Author: Ashley Brown; Publisher: RGP; Publication Year: 2020. The following article discusses how COVID-19 has expedited the use of technology, particularly in healthcare and in dealing with containing the disease. Many countries are using GPS…
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Understanding the Ethical Dance of AI and Healthcare
Author: Ashleigh Kennedy; Publisher: TEDx Talks; Publication Year: 2020. The following video discusses how AI is innovating the healthcare industry, but as the technology develops and the line between humans and machine becomes blurry, ethical…