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Crisis Standards of Care and COVID-19: What Did We Learn? How Do We Ensure Equity? What Should We Do?
National Academy of Medicine
Aug 30, 2021
One of many recommendations by Matthew Wynia, MD, MPH and co-authors is that specialty societies, major health care systems, public health departments and officials, and private sector health information technology partners should work together to leverage AI to assist in developing better prognostic tools for critical illness in general, as well as for disease- and injury-specific situations, and to develop systems for tracking the effects of using these algorithms on key measures of equity. Read full Discussion Paper>>