Machine Learning in Health Care.

• Position: Conferences

An NBER conference on Machine Learning in Health Care took place June 4 in Cambridge. Research Associates David M. Cutler and Sendhil Mullainathan, both of Harvard University, and Ziad Obermeyer of Harvard Medical School organized the meeting. The conference was partially funded by a grant from the National Institute on Aging. These researchers' papers were presented and discussed:

* Sendhil Mullainathan and Ziad Obermeyer, "Are We Over-Testing? Using Machine Learning to Understand Doctors' Decisions"

* Susan Athey, Stanford University and NBER, "The Impact of Machine Learning on Economics" (Chapter in the forthcoming NBER book The Economics of Artificial Intelligence: An Agenda, Ajay K. Agrawal, Joshua Gans, and Avi Goldfarb, editors, from the University of Chicago Press)

* David C. Chan Jr, Stanford University and NBER, and Jonathan Gruber, MIT and NBER, "Triage Judgments in the Emergency Department"

* Justine S. Hastings, Brown University and NBER, and Mark...