A Platform for Understanding Fairness, Equity & Bias in AI Healthcare Products

Patient & Clinician Education
Healthcare AI
Content Management
HealthTech Build Studio e-learning platform interface for AI healthcare bias and fairness research
COMPANY PROFILE
Industry
EdTech. Healthtech Nonprofit
Size
5,000+ community members
Web
healthtechbuild.com
HQ
Boston, MA
$50K
in pro-bono services to bring AI bias education to the healthtech community.

About the client

HealthTech Build is a mission-driven nonprofit that catalyzes collaboration among healthcare entrepreneurs, clinicians, digital innovators, leaders in Biotech and MedTech, researchers, and investors. Based in Boston, they build connections through workshops, roundtables, and panel events, with an emphasis on closing the technology gap in healthcare.

HealthTech Build has launched HealthTech Build Studio, an online educational platform designed to tackle critical issues in healthcare. The platform’s initial content focuses on pivotal research addressing the challenges of fairness, equity, and bias that can emerge from AI-driven healthcare products.

The Challenge


AI is transforming healthcare, but it can also deepen bias and inequality. HealthTech Build Studio set out to close that gap with an interactive platform that makes bias research accessible, and needed a tech partner to help build it and put those insights within reach.

The Solution

5000+

Community members
Patient & Clinician Education
Healthcare AI
Content Management
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HealthTech Build Studio admin module screen for creating and managing AI healthcare bias learning content

The Solution

We developed an e-learning solution to help users quickly grasp key quantitative and qualitative insights from AI healthcare research.The platform features an admin module for the HealthTech Build Studio team to independently create and update content with emerging research.With modules and a slide-builder, it supports multimedia for customized learning experiences per study.

The Process

1. Light-it Foundation’s Tech Collaboration Grant

Light-it was looking for an exceptional nonprofit in the healthcare domain driven by a passion for creating real change with technology. Light-it contributed $50,000 in services, including software development, product design, and expert consultancy, to help HealthTech Build Studio fulfill its goals.

2. technical challenge

The development of a CMS (Content Management System) from scratch that enabled the autonomous creation of new learning modules was one of the main challenges. Light-it’s team evaluated different tech stacks before developing a comprehensive course builder solution.

An admin portal for user, content & platform management

The Admin Portal brings the operational side of the platform into one place. Administrators can manage users and permissions, create and edit content, publish webinars, oversee forums, and control access to shared resources. This gives healthcare organizations a single workspace to manage both the people and the content that keep the platform running.
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Secure User Management & Role-Based Access
Role-based permissions and user management help healthcare organizations protect sensitive information while keeping care teams connected through a shared, controlled platform.
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Secure In-App Content Management
Healthcare teams can create, organize, and store content directly within the platform, keeping shared knowledge accessible to authorized team members. Centralizing content creation and management in the application
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Multi-Format Content & Webinar Management
Teams can create and publish different types of content directly within the platform, including webinars, without relying on separate tools. This multi-format architecture reduces the need to rely on separate tools for different types of educational content.
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Centralized Platform Administration
Administrators have a centralized view of the platform, bringing together users, content, content creation and editing, forums, and other core features in one place. This gives teams greater visibility over the platform’s activity and makes it easier to manage resources, users, and collaboration from a single interface.
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Each patient can track every health metric that matters without relying on paper and manual intake.
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Labs and clinical documents can be uploaded in one place. The app processes information and stores it in a way the clinician and patients can monitor changes through time.
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Wearables can be synced for continuous health monitoring in a very simple way. This reduces errors when uploading data allowing for more reliable care.
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Built-in messaging keeps patients connected with their care team and upcoming appointments maximising adherence to the treatment and study retention
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Patinets can upload their lab results in various formats allowing the clinician to have updated important information for care in a centralized compliant platform.
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Every patient can access their tailored care plan and visualize their treatment and possible changes within one tap.

Interactive healthcare learning & collaboration

The user experience combines multi-format healthcare content, interactive learning, and community engagement in one platform. Users can access resources such as webinars and educational materials, test their knowledge through quizzes, and participate in forums to exchange ideas and insights with their peers.
HealthTech Build Studio admin dashboard showing the course builder interface for managing learning modules
HealthTech Build Studio desktop screen showing the CMS module for creating new learning content
Healthcare Content, all in one place
Users can access healthcare content in different formats directly within the platform, including webinars and other educational resources. This gives each user a single place to discover and engage with the information most relevant to their needs.
HealthTech Build Studio desktop screen showing the slide-builder tool for customized learning experiences
Interactive healthcare learning
The platform makes healthcare content interactive through features such as quizzes, giving users an active way to engage with educational material.
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Collaborative healthcare community
Users can participate in forums to ask questions, exchange knowledge, and engage in discussions with other members of their healthcare community. This adds a collaborative layer to the platform.

Tech Stack & Integrations

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Why it matters

HealthTech Build set out to make complex research on fairness and bias in healthcare AI easier to understand and apply. Light-it’s role was to turn that vision into a practical digital learning experience, combining research-based content with interactive education and community engagement. We built a platform where healthcare professionals can learn through different formats, test their knowledge, and exchange ideas, creating a space that makes responsible AI education more accessible and actionable.

"It was such an incredibly positive experience to work with Light-it. Communication and execution were excellent all around – from the outset, they ensured our goals and expectations were aligned, the discovery process was first-rate, and the development team delivered efficiently. The proactive reach out from company leadership for feedback after the work was completed really differentiates them. Highly recommend".

JENNIFER SATO
Founder & President at HealthTech Build
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A Platform for Understanding Fairness, Equity & Bias in AI Healthcare Products

Strategy
Custom software development
Integrations & interoperability
UX/UI design
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COMPANY PROFILE
Industry
EdTech. Healthtech Nonprofit
Size
5,000+ community members
Web
healthtechbuild.com
HQ
Boston, MA
$50K
in pro-bono services to bring AI bias education to the healthtech community.

About the client

HealthTech Build is a mission-driven nonprofit that catalyzes collaboration among healthcare entrepreneurs, clinicians, digital innovators, leaders in Biotech and MedTech, researchers, and investors. Based in Boston, they build connections through workshops, roundtables, and panel events, with an emphasis on closing the technology gap in healthcare.

HealthTech Build has launched HealthTech Build Studio, an online educational platform designed to tackle critical issues in healthcare. The platform’s initial content focuses on pivotal research addressing the challenges of fairness, equity, and bias that can emerge from AI-driven healthcare products.

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The Problem

AI is transforming healthcare, but expanding research suggests that AI healthcare technologies may unintentionally amplify bias, exacerbating already-existing inequalities. The fairness and equity of AI applications in healthcare is a complex and nuanced topic.

There are limited tools available to educate builders and users of AI tools about the manifestation of bias in healthcare products. HealthTech Build Studio aims to create a guided interactive platform that provides builders and users of AI healthcare products with easy access to key insights from published studies on fairness and equity in predictive algorithms, generative AI, and other AI technologies.

HealthTech Build Studio was searching for a technology innovation partner to help them develop a platform to democratize the learnings from research on fairness and equity through easy access to concise insights on the platform.

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Light-it Foundation’s Tech Collaboration Grant

At the same time, Light-it was looking for an exceptional nonprofit in the healthcare domain driven by a passion for creating real change with technology. Light-it contributed $50,000 in services, including software development, product design, and expert consultancy, to help HealthTech Build Studio fulfill its goals.

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The Solution

We developed an e-learning solution designed to provide a guided experience for users, enabling them to navigate both quantitative and qualitative analyses within each research study. This helps users quickly grasp the most important insights relevant to the AI products they are building, deploying, or using.

The platform includes an administrator module that empowers the HealthTech Build Studio team to independently create new educational modules and comprehensive content. This ensures the platform remains robust and cutting-edge by reflecting emerging research.

Our solution is structured around modules and a slide-builder that supports multimedia elements, including videos, images, activities, and text. This allows for the creation of custom learning experiences tailored to each research study.

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Sample content for one educational module includes:

• Guiding users through the evaluation of label choices, ground truth, data limitations underlying an AI predictive algorithm in healthcare

• Leading users through the statistical metrics to assess bias in a predictive algorithm

• Exploring a framework to evaluate tradeoffs in metrics choices & data limitations

Light-it’s UX/UI team also designed a prototype of an interface featuring a future community forum. This forum will enable users to engage in topic-specific interactive learning opportunities, structured to facilitate engagement and communication.

Product/Solution’s Technical Challenge:

The development of a CMS (Content Management System) from scratch that enabled the autonomous creation of new learning modules was one of the main challenges. Light-it’s team evaluated different tech stacks before developing a comprehensive course builder solution.

Tech Stack

Laravel
React
Type Script

Sneak peek of the solution

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A user-friendly platform builder

We empowered HealthTech Build Studio administrators by allowing them to continue creating new educational modules through an intuitive platform builder.
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The course builder administrators can efficiently create each course module through an intuitive platform.  This e-learning platform allows the integration of various modalities, such as video, text, and images, for an enhanced learning experience.

In addition to the module builder, they can create the slides that will accompany each class within the HealthTech Build platform.

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User management

HealthTech Build Studio administrators can easily manage platform users, depending on whether they are members or open-source users.

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Within the User Management section, administrators can both send invitations and accept or reject new member requests.

The registration process for new members is not only aesthetically appealing but also very intuitive and user-friendly.

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Future concepts: HealthTech Build Studio

HealthTech Build is excited to build out the platform and envisions future interactive functionality. In the future, it will continue to add leading-edge research studies to the platform to maximize the breadth and relevancy of the platform’s content.
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Our UX/UI team has already developed the interface design that will accompany this new project functionality.

This next step of the project will incorporate forums, including live webinars and other opportunities for community engagement.

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"It was such an incredibly positive experience to work with Light-it. Communication and execution were excellent all around – from the outset, they ensured our goals and expectations were aligned, the discovery process was first-rate, and the development team delivered efficiently. The proactive reach out from company leadership for feedback after the work was completed really differentiates them. Highly recommend".

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JENNIFER SATO
Founder & President at HealthTech Build

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