Paper explores how to reduce algorithm biases

A paper published in JAMA Network Open in December 2023 provides health care leaders with guiding principles to reduce algorithm biases and avoid repeating mistakes that have led to worse outcomes for racial and ethnic minorities. The principles were developed following a two-day meeting in March 2023 of a diverse panel of experts convened by Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and the National Institute for Minority Health and Health Disparities at the National Institutes of Health. The authors note that the health care community must understand how using algorithms may lead to unintended biased outcomes, how to identify biases before implementation and what to do with biases discovered after implementation. (AHRQ news release, 12/15/23)