Episode 34: You Know, the Girl Meat

There's an extra dose of dysfunction in this episode but we think it fits since we're talking about how the computers are all trying to take our jobs and the best way to fight back! Okay not really - but we are talking about Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Algorithmic Bias in Healthcare today. Piggybacking on our episodes about Medical Bias (#29 and #30, in case you want to re-listen real quick), this episode was recommended to us by a listener and we take a look at what AI in Healthcare looks like, what it is used for, and why it can be a problem. Hospitals and doctors use AI every day to help diagnose and treat patients - but what happens when the mathematic equation (a/k/a ALGORITHM) used to get those diagnoses was written by someone who is biased? Or what happens when the data we used to create that algorithm is all skewed in the first place? We also talk about ways to combat those problems, so don't worry - it's not the worst thing to ever happen, unless you ask Garet, in which case, the world is ending. 

 

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Sources: 

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6875681/

https://nihcm.org/publications/artificial-intelligences-racial-bias-in-health-care

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aax2342

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Huiwen-Loh/publication/360001378_Automated_detection_of_ADHD_Current_trends_and_future_perspective/links/625b57eaa279ec5dd7fd6e8c/Automated-detection-of-ADHD-Current-trends-and-future-perspective.pdf

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41746-020-0288-5

https://www.healthnavigator.org.nz/health-a-z/h/heart-attack-symptoms-womens/