Machine Learning in Health Care.

• Position: Conferences

An NBER conference on Machine Learning in Health Care took place May 10 in Cambridge. Research Associates David M. Cutler of Harvard University and Sendhil Mullainathan of the University of Chicago, and Ziad Obermeyer of the University of California, Berkeley organized the meeting, which was sponsored by the National Institute on Aging.. These researchers' papers were presented and discussed:

* Hagai Rossman and Smadar Shilo, Weizmann Institute of Science, "Childhood Obesity Prediction and Risk Factor Analysis from Nationwide Health Records"

* Jason Abaluck, Yale University and NBER; Leila Agha, Dartmouth College and NBER; and David C. Chan, Jr., Stanford University and NBER, "Who Should Get Blood? Personalizing Medicine with Heterogeneous Treatment Effects"

* Emma J. Pierson and Jure Leskovec, Stanford University, David M. Cutler, Sendhil Mullainathan, and Ziad Obermeyer, "Using Machine Learning to Explain Socioeconomic and Racial Gaps in Pain"

* Rediet Abebe, Cornell University; Shawndra Hill and Jennifer...