The Hidden Dangers of AI Confidence Scores in Healthcare
AI can serve as an invaluable tool, but blindly trusting “confidence scores” creates serious risks. Here are some better alternatives. The post The Hidden Dangers of AI Confidence Scores in Healthcare appeared first on MedCity News.
As Rural America Grows More Diverse, Language Access Is Slow To Take Hold
The share of people who are Hispanic or Latino has grown to a little more than a quarter of the population in Elko, Nevada, a small city in the remote northeastern corner of the state. That growth in diversity has also led to an increasing number of people who speak a language other than English…
News Influencers, Opioid Disparities, and AI Bias in Healthcare – KFF Health Misinformation Monitor
This edition examines the role of news influencers in spreading misinformation, misleading narratives about harm reduction amid disparities in opioid overdose, and biases in artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare.
Donor Government Funding for Family Planning in 2023
This report provides an analysis of donor government funding to address family planning in low- and middle-income countries in 2023, which totaled US$1.47 billion, and was an increase of 7% (US$101 million) compared to the 2022 amount (US$1.37 billion); although, it was still below the peak level reached in 2019 (US$1.58 billion). The overall increase…
Donor Government Funding for Family Planning Reports
These reports track funding levels of the donor governments that collectively provide the bulk of international assistance for family planning activities and is part of an effort by KFF that began after the London Summit on Family Planning in 2012. It presents their bilateral assistance to low- and middle-income countries as well as contributions to…
Centenaria vive sola en Nueva York, y se mantiene comprometida y activa con su comunidad
“El futuro está aquí”, anunciaba el correo electrónico. Hilda Jaffe, que entonces tenía 88 años, les estaba diciendo a sus hijos que pensaba vender la casa familiar de Verona, Nueva Jersey. Había decidido empezar una nueva vida, por su cuenta, en un apartamento de una habitación en Hell’s Kitchen, en Manhattan. Catorce años después, Jaffe,…
Faltan iniciativas de gobiernos rurales para comunicarse con los residentes que no dominan el inglés
Eloisa Mendoza ha pasado 18 años ayudando a personas que no dominan el inglés a comprender documentos legales complejos. Los guía en medio de eventos estresantes, repletos de denso papeleo, como solicitudes de ciudadanía, divorcios y traducciones de actas de nacimiento. Mendoza trabaja en Elko, Nevada, una región remota en el noreste del estado. Su…
Patients Couldn’t Pay Their Utility Bills. One Hospital Turned to Solar Power for Help.
Anna Goldman, a primary care physician at Boston Medical Center, got tired of hearing that her patients couldn’t afford the electricity needed to run breathing assistance machines, recharge wheelchairs, turn on air conditioning, or keep their refrigerators plugged in. So she worked with her hospital on a solution. The result is a pilot effort called…
A Health Economist to lead the NIH
By SAURABH JHA Early on in the COVID-19 pandemic a seroprevalence study from Santa Clara indicated that the viral spread was far greater than was believed. The study suggested that the infection fatality rate (IFR) was much lower than the case fatality rate and perhaps even lower than the suspected IFR. The researchers estimated that…