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Improving Pre-Hospital Care For Language Minorities Using Machine Learning

Tycho Tax
7/1/2018
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Improving Pre-Hospital Care For Language Minorities Using Machine Learning

Pre-hospital emergency care should be of the same quality for all citizens. Similarly, benefits from advances in machine learning should be spread equally across society. Unfortunately, neither is the case. Language barriers, for instance, limit the quality of pre-hospital care given to language minorities, and algorithmic bias has already led to harm of specific societal groups.