The Humble Origins Of TikTok’s Almighty Algorithm

An exclusive excerpt from Every Screen On The Planet reveals how the social media app’s powerful recommendation engine was ...
Business Wire

Dandelion Health Launches Public Service Program to Evaluate Performance and Bias of Healthcare Algorithms Using Most Comprehensive Datasets Available

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dandelion Health, Inc., a startup offering a healthcare data platform that specializes in artificial intelligence and precision analytics, announced today the launch of a ...

Private health insurers use AI to approve or deny care. Soon Medicare will, too.

A pilot program testing the use of artificial intelligence to expand prior authorization decisions in Medicare has providers, ...
Medscape

'Spike' Detection Program Promising to Diagnose Epilepsy on EEG

A new automated computer algorithm for the diagnosis of epilepsy from electroencephalogram (EEG) readings ― developed by analyzing multiple expert opinions on thousands of such readings ― has shown ...
Managed Healthcare Executive

AI Tool Accurately Identifies Precancerous Stomach and Esophagus Conditions From Health Records

A groundbreaking NLP algorithm accurately identifies precancerous gastric and esophageal conditions from EHRs, enhancing early detection and personalized patient care.
University of South Florida

Turning Ideas into Algorithms

Martino’s first steps in research were firmly rooted in psychology. As an undergraduate, she studied mindset theory and ...
University of California

Racial bias found in widely used health care prediction algorithm

From predicting who will be a repeat offender to who’s the best candidate for a job, computer algorithms are now making complex decisions in lieu of humans. But increasingly, many of these algorithms ...
The New York Times

Here’s a homemade version of the Codebreaker algorithm — and how to break it

You, too, can be a state-of-the-art sign-stealer. You can play along at home and download The Athletic’s homemade version of the sign-cracking algorithm, while we ...
Nature

Perinatal transfer of genetic information: developing an algorithm for reporting cystic fibrosis prenatal test results to the newborn screening program

Purpose: This study explored the feasibility of statewide reporting of cystic fibrosis fetal diagnostic testing results to the newborn screening program through the birth hospital. Methods: We ...
Los Angeles Times

When computers make biased health decisions, black patients pay the price, study says

People may be biased, even without realizing it, but computer programs shouldn’t have any reason to discriminate against black patients when predicting their healthcare needs. Right? Wrong, new ...
Inside Higher Ed

The Death and Life of an Admissions Algorithm

In 2013, the University of Texas at Austin’s computer science department began using a machine-learning system called GRADE to help make decisions about who gets into its Ph.D. program -- and who ...
The Atlantic

Do Algorithms Have a Place in Policing?

Inside the bright-white walls of his office, in one of Los Angeles’s poorest neighborhoods, Hamid Khan is a calming presence. Khan, 62 years old, is the founding organizer of the Stop LAPD Spying ...