Epic’s overhaul of a flawed algorithm shows why AI oversight is a life-or-death issue (24 October 2022)

Summary

In this report for Stat, technology correspondent Casey Ross looks at the dangers involved in using AI to predict patient outcomes, especially in life-or-death situations such as suspected sepsis. He looks at the recent case of US electronic health record provider Epic who were force to rewrite the algorithm being used by tens of thousands of US clinicians to predict sepsis.