This is Part 1 of Embedded Bias, a series revealing how race-based clinical algorithms pervade medicine and why it's so difficult to change them. Pediatrician Alexandra Epee-Bounya had had enough. In ...

Every day, physicians use clinical algorithms to make decisions about the patients in their exam rooms. To help weigh a patient’s surgical risk or likelihood of disease, they factor in attributes such ...

The AACE update to its 2026 algorithm for the management of type 2 diabetes includes a new section on diabetes classification.

Many health systems depend on prediction algorithms to identify and help patients with various health conditions. Some of these algorithms exhibit significant racial bias, resulting in millions of ...

Credit: Getty Images Jim Anderson, MPAS, PA-C, explores the movement to dismantle racism in medicine by eliminating race from clinical algorithms. The team’s goal is to identify harmful race-based ...