When we swear to do no harm, it’s not only in our day-to-day interactions, writes, Dr. Yuan-Innes. We have to recognize systemic biases, not only in how we act but also those baked into our tools.
The success of the anticoagulation therapy management program at the University of the Waterloo could soon open the door to similar AI-powered virtual training in high-demand areas such as hypertension management.
We do not want to stop medications that are safely helping to treat symptoms, but we could think about ‘legacy prescriptions’ which people may have been taking for many years without re-evaluation.