Events at Stanford
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16:34 Jan 20, 2022
Date: Wednesday, February 2, 2022. 10:00 AM. Location: Live Virtual Event Speaker: Juan M. Banda, PhD, Affiliate, Primary Care and Population Health, Stanford Medicine Title: Are Phenotyping Algorithms Fair for Underrepresented Minorities within Older Adults? Abstract: The widespread adoption of machine learning (ML) algorithms for risk-stratification has unearthed plenty of cases of racial/ethnic biases within algorithms. When built without careful weightage and bias-proofing, ML algorithms can give wrong recommendations, thereby worsening health disparities faced by communities of color. Biases within electronic phenotyping algorithms are largely unexplored. In this work, Juan Banda looks at probabilistic phenotyping algorithms for clinical conditions common in vulnerable older adults: dementia, frailty, mild cognitive impairment, Alzheimer’s disease, and Parkinson’s disease. Banda created an experimental framework to explore racial/ethnic biases within a single healthcare system, Stanford Health Care, to f...