Season 7 · Episode 601
601 - How Health Care Algorithms and AI Can Help and Harm
Public Health On Call · Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
April 17, 202320m 3s
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Show Notes
Algorithms—formulas that do everything from suggesting Netflix shows to streamlining Google results—are increasingly used in health care settings. But could these tools be introducing bias? Kadija Ferryman, a cultural anthropologist and faculty at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute for Bioethics, talks with Dr. Josh Sharfstein about what algorithms are and the double-edged sword of their use in medicine.