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Science — Dissecting racial bias in an algorithm used to manage population health
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- Optum Healthcare Algorithm Systematically Underprovided Care to Black Patients
event | 1 Jan 2019 | 80%
A widely used healthcare risk algorithm sold by Optum used healthcare spending as a proxy for health need. Because structural inequalities mean Black patients historically spent less on healthcare than equally sick white patients, the algorithm systematically underestimated the health needs of Blac…