Deep Dive: Deep Dive Into Racial Bias in the Electronic Health Record

Findings of a recent Health Affairs study showed that race and bias were significantly associated with negative patient descriptors in the electronic health record. On today’s Deep Dive, Michael Sun, first author of the study and a medical student at the Pritzker School of Medicine at the University of Chicago, discusses the impact of potentially stigmatizing language on racial and ethnic health care disparities and building awareness among clinicians.