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Podcast: A Health Podyssey
Episode: Michael Sun on Racial Biases Hiding in EHRs
Description: The February 2022 issue of Health Affairs focuses entirely on racism and health. It includes papers that trace the long history of racism to present day policies and practices that are the reasons for large and sustained health disparities.Racism and bias come in many forms and given the social stigma associated with them, they can be difficult to study. When a study comes along that provides new empirical data on bias, it makes a major contribution to our understanding of this important topic.One s...