The Council for Medical Specialty Societies, or CMSS, announced the launch of a new initiative that aims to reduce clinicians’ reliance on race in clinical decision-making and patient harms.
“We are going to work together to build a coalition that ensures that equity is encoded,” Helen Burstin, MD, MPH, CMSS chief executive officer, said during a meeting held by CMSS, the Doris Duke Foundation (DDF) and the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine. “We have to make sure that those who have been harmed, especially those who have been harmed by bias