Health IT for Equity
Can health IT be leveraged to promote equity and reduce bias? Dr. Alison Curfman believes it can, with humans playing a crucial role. In this exploration, we discuss the importance of clean data for building AI language models and how health IT can help reduce bias while advancing health equity. Guest: Alison Curfman, MD, pediatric emergency […]
Information as a Determinant of Health
Dr. Garth Graham, the Director and Global Head of Healthcare and Public Health Partnerships at YouTube, has long espoused the belief that information is a social determinant of health. We had the chance to talk with Dr. Graham at HLTH 2023 in Las Vegas about this concept, as well as the topics of medical misinformation, […]
The Anatomy of Medical Misinformation with Dr. G
Medical misinformation is a serious issue that is on the radar of policymakers, public health officials, pediatricians, and parents alike. It’s so prominent that in 2021, with the COVID-19 pandemic raging and an undercurrent of medical misinformation working against public health efforts at vaccination, the Office of U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy issued an […]
