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AI's potential to improve healthcare access could be offset by exploitation

By News-Medical  
   October 09, 2024

Proponents of AI envision the technology helping to manage healthcare supply chains, monitor disease outbreaks, make diagnoses, interpret medical images, and even reduce equity gaps in access to care by compensating for healthcare worker shortages. But others are sounding the alarm about issues like privacy rights, racial and gender biases in models, lack of transparency in AI decision-making processes that could lead to patient care mistakes, and even the potential for insurance companies to use AI to discriminate against people with poor health.

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