Execs: To Reduce Disparities, Insurers Must Constantly Target AI Bias
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Apr 12, 2024
As artificial intelligence software proliferates in the health care sector, a good deal of attention has focused on the ways that AI could make existing health disparities worse. Experts say that AI also has the potential to mitigate or reverse health disparities — so long as health care organizations, and insurers in particular, proactively and continuously counter biases in their current and future software platforms.
“We’re at this inflection point where we have new tools. We have new technology that actually may have that opportunity to address health inequality in a way we haven’t been able to before. But we’re at this inflection point where that same tool can actually amplify that bias, amplify the inequality that already exists,” said Maia Hightower, M.D., during a March 26 panel organized by the National Institute for Health Care Management (NIHCM) Foundation.
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