Viewpoint: For minorities, biased AI algorithms can damage almost every part of life
Bad data does not only produce bad outcomes. It can also help to suppress sections of society, for instance vulnerable women and minorities.
Aug 25, 2023
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Bad data does not only produce bad outcomes. It can also help to suppress sections of society, for instance vulnerable women and minorities.
Aug 25, 2023
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Key computer systems at hospitals and clinics in several states have yet to come back online more than two weeks after a cyberattack that forced some emergency room shutdowns and ambulance diversions.
Aug 19, 2023
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The period during and after hospital mergers and acquisitions is an especially vulnerable time for patient data when the chance of a cybersecurity breach more than doubles, according to research by a University of Texas at ...
Aug 4, 2023
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Many users of Japan's No. 2 mobile carrier KDDI Corp. were still having trouble making calls Monday after a massive outage throughout the weekend that affected nearly 40 million people, disrupting deliveries, weather reports ...
Jul 4, 2022
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Researchers at TUM and Imperial have developed a technology that protects patients' personal data while training healthcare algorithms.
May 25, 2021
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Healthcare and aerospace experts at King's College London, The Alan Turing Institute, the University of Cambridge, and the Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences at UT Austin in Texas have said advances ...
May 24, 2021
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The Australian government has appointed the commercial company HealthEngine to establish a national booking system for COVID-19 vaccinations.
Apr 15, 2021
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Federal agencies warned that cybercriminals could hobbled all 250 U.S. facilities of the hospital chain Universal Health Services, forcing doctors and nurses to rely on paper and pencil for record-keeping and slowing lab ...
Oct 30, 2020
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A new MIT study finds "health knowledge graphs," which show relationships between symptoms and diseases and are intended to help with clinical diagnosis, can fall short for certain conditions and patient populations. The ...
Jan 10, 2020
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A US congressional committee on Monday asked for a briefing on a Google project to modernize healthcare while giving the internet titan access to millions of people's medical data.
Nov 19, 2019
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