Increasing Health Equity Through Accessibility and Education
Through community engagement, the root causes of healthcare disparities can be addressed, and the health and resiliency of individuals can be dramatically improved.
LLMs Can Perpetuate Harmful Ideas About Race-Based Medicine, Study Shows
A new study led by Stanford researchers tested four commercially available LLMs and found that they all could potentially cause harm by breeding inaccurate, racist information. For example, all models tried to justify race-based medicine when asked questions about calculating patients’ kidney function and lung capacity — two areas where race-based medicine practices used to be common but have since been scientifically refuted.
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Dismantling structural racism is essential for the health of Black communities
The health crisis in Black communities isn’t solely due to lack of access to care. Much of it also stems from well-documented racial disparities and biases, such as biases around pain perception and treatment recommendations.
Healthcare firms were pushed to confront racism. Now some are investing in Black startups.
The racial reckoning of the past couple of years has inspired many industries to take a look at their histories and practices.
Negative stereotypes disproportionately affect Black patients’ medical records
The study found that Black patients were labeled "nonadherent" or "noncompliant" more often than their white counterparts and their pain undertreated. Such unfair terminology is used across the board from primary care physicians to specialists.