How Does Bias Affect Healthcare AI, And What Can Be Done About It?

The chief technology officer of Royal Philips provides some answers for health system CIOs and other IT leaders.
While artificial intelligence has the potential to make healthcare more accessible and efficient, it also is vulnerable to the social, economic and systemic biases that have been entrenched in society for generations.

The first step to keeping AI from amplifying existing inequalities is understanding the bias that can creep into algorithms and how to prevent it through careful design and implementation.

Healthcare IT News interviewed AI expert Henk van Houten, chief technology officer at global IT vendor Royal Philips, to get a better understanding of bias in AI and what the healthcare industry can do about it.
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