Achieving fairness in medical devices
Bias in medical device design and deployment
"Achieving fairness in medical devices is a key piece of the puzzle, but a piece nonetheless. Even if one manages to engineer a fair medical device, it could be used by a clinical provider who has conscious or subconscious bias. And even a fair medical device from an engineering perspective might be inaccessible to a range of demographic groups, owing to socioeconomic reasons. Several open questions remain. What is an acceptable trade-off between device performance and fairness? It is also important to consider how biases that are not easy to predict or easy to observe at scale can be dealt with. Race and sex are also part of human biology. How can positive biases be properly encoded into medical-device design? Diversity and inclusion have gained increasing attention, and the era of fair medical devices is only just beginning."
Posted: April 6, 2021, 11:57 AM