From Race-Based to Precision Oncology: Leveraging Behavioral Economics and the Electronic Health Record to Advance Health Equity in Cancer Care
The senseless killings of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and countless others have led to a national reckoning on institutional racism. In medicine, race has long been used as a heuristic, or mental shortcut, used by clinicians to process information and make decisions within the time and cognitive constraints of our healthcare system.1 However, using race as a heuristic in medical…
