What the study found The study relied on electronic medical records of 45,000 children who had been seen in the Duke University Health System as infants between January 2006 and December 2020.

Some health care professionals echoed the study’s conclusions, noting that algorithms often pull data from older medical tests that treat skin color as a biological difference.

The algorithm was able to accurately rule out a heart attack in nearly all patients, according to the study published Thursday in Nature Medicine. The tool, tested in more than 10,000 patients in ...