It’s not just social media sites that reinforce users’ prejudices and belief systems by feeding them stories catering to their viewpoints; healthcare algorithms can also create “echo chambers,” according to Mayo Clinic Platform researchers, who examine the issue in this piece. Fortunately, there are alternatives. Source: “Filter Bubbles”: The Quest to Prevent Algorithms from Running Amok on healthsystemcio.com - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and comprehensively serving the information needs of healthcare CIOs.

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