Amidst all the conversations of how to best pay for healthcare in the United States, we also need to discuss how to best treat patients for those dollars. As with so many areas of our lives, algorithms trained via machine learning are becoming a part of the treatment process. Machine learning techniques look for patterns in data, even to the point of finding patterns their programmers did not expect or know about. Sadly, one common pattern in many data sets is racial bias. Often when an algorithm is looking to replicate … [Read more...] about Science Corner: Healthcare for All