Association of Health Care Journalists: How One Reporter Covered the Removal of Race From Common Algorithms
November 15, 2024
November 15, 2024
COLUMBIA, Missouri, Nov. 15 -- The Association of Health Care Journalists issued the following Q&A on Nov. 14, 2024, with independent journalist Cassandra Willyard:
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In 2020, an NEJM publication highlighted the widespread misuse of race as a proxy for discrimination and genetic ancestry in medical algorithms. That publication and growing social awareness of the harms of racism re-invigorated long-simmering efforts to fix biases caused by the misuse of race.
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In 2020, an NEJM publication highlighted the widespread misuse of race as a proxy for discrimination and genetic ancestry in medical algorithms. That publication and growing social awareness of the harms of racism re-invigorated long-simmering efforts to fix biases caused by the misuse of race.