601 - How Health Care Algorithms and AI Can Help and Harm

Public Health On Call

English - April 17, 2023 10:00 - 20 minutes - 27.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 559 ratings
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Algorithms—formulas that do everything from suggesting Netflix shows to streamlining Google results—are increasingly used in health care settings. But could these tools be introducing bias? Kadija Ferryman, a cultural anthropologist and faculty at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute for Bioethics, talks with Dr. Josh Sharfstein about what algorithms are and the double-edged sword of their use in medicine.