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How Algorithms Can Help You Manage Chronic Conditions
The majority of the US population is being run through one of these algorithms. These algorithms are gating whether you get access to extra help with your chronic conditions or not. We found that if we took two hypothetical patients with the same score and followed them over a year after the algorithm made its prediction, the black patients did far worse than the white patients. They had far more flare ups of chronic conditions that landed them in the ER and in the hospital.