Rooting Out Racial Bias in Health Care AI, Part 1
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The Power of AI to Save Children's Lives
Duke researcher Ganga Morthy had found that doctors took much longer to order critical blood tests for Hispanic kids, eventually diagnosed with sepsis than white kids. Mark's team was able to show me a dashboard of every child in the hospital who had sepsis. The algorithm wasn't yet predicting which kids would get sepsis, but it was identifying which patients were septic in real time. Emily could now picture a world where she could worry a little less about septicaemia.
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