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Feb 2023
33m 8s

Helping Doctors Make Better Decisions Wi...

MIT Sloan Management Review and Boston Consulting Group (BCG)
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When Ziad Obermeyer was a resident in an emergency medicine program, he found himself lying awake at night worrying about the complex elements of patient diagnoses that physicians could miss. He subsequently found his way to data science and research and has since coauthored numerous papers on algorithmic bias and the use of AI and machine learning in predic ... Show More
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