The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) intends to add language to a federal rule to make it clear that physicians could be held accountable for decisions made while relying on clinical ...

Many physicians are now using algorithms that consider a patient's sex, like heart disease risk assessment tools, to help with clinical decision-making. Reliance on these algorithms may result in men ...

Based on the comprehensive findings of a review, investigators outline several crucial policy implications, each designed to address the complex issue of bias mitigation in clinical algorithms ...

Categorizing patients with cancer by their disease stage can be an important tool when conducting administrative claims-based studies. As claims databases frequently do not capture this information, ...

Aletha Maybank, chief health equity officer of the American Medical Association (AMA), opened the workshop and explained that the AMA in 2020 called for ridding the nation’s health care system of ...