Impact — Quick recap: The first article focused on the history of race in American medicine. The second article focused on how predictive algorithms came to be in spirometry. The third article focused on the history of race in specifically spirometry. Today, in the final article of the series, we’ll focus on…

Reducing Bias in Data by Understanding Its History — In case you’ve missed the first two articles, it may be helpful to go read those first. The first article details the broader history of race in American medicine. The second article details predictive equations in spirometry, and race as a factor of prediction. This article will tie those two…

Predictive Formulas — A little over a week ago I summarized some of America’s history that disadvantaged marginalized racial groups. Today I’ll dive into how spirometry equations are created, and next week we’ll dive into how history embeds itself into spirometry as well. What is Spirometry? Spirometry is a commonly used test for aiding the determination…

Race & Medicine — When I started working at VitalFlo, I noticed in the universally used algorithms developed from clinical research that exist for predicting lung health, race or ethnicity is a necessary factor for the equation. …