Ensuring machine learning for healthcare works for all

Liam G McCoy^{1

2}, John D Banja³, Marzyeh Ghassemi^{4

5

6}, Leo Anthony Celi^{7

8

9}

Affiliations

¹ Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada liam.mccoy@mail.utoronto.ca.
² Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
³ Emory Center for Ethics, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
⁴ Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
⁵ Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
⁶ Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
⁷ Laboratory for Computational Physiology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
⁸ Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
⁹ Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States.

Liam G McCoy et al. BMJ Health Care Inform. 2020 Nov.

. 2020 Nov;27(3):e100237.

doi: 10.1136/bmjhci-2020-100237.

Liam G McCoy^{1

2}, John D Banja³, Marzyeh Ghassemi^{4

5

6}, Leo Anthony Celi^{7

8

9}

¹ Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada liam.mccoy@mail.utoronto.ca.
² Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
³ Emory Center for Ethics, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
⁴ Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
⁵ Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
⁶ Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
⁷ Laboratory for Computational Physiology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
⁸ Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
⁹ Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States.

No abstract available

Keywords: health care; medical informatics; patient care.

Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: MG acts as an advisor to Radical Ventures in Toronto.

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