Machine Learning in Health Care.

• Position: Conferences

An NBER conference on Machine Learning in Health Care, supported by the National Institute on Aging, took place online on January 15. Research Associate David M. Cutler and Faculty Research Fellow Timothy Layton of Harvard University organized the meeting. These researchers' papers were presented and discussed:

* Suproteem Sarkar, Harvard University; N. Meltem Daysal, University of Copenhagen; Sendhil Mullainathan, University of Chicago and NBER; Ziad Obermeyer, University of California, Berkeley; and Mircea Trandafir, University of Southern Denmark, "Preventive Care through a Richer Policy Space: A Machine Learning Approach to Breast Cancer Screening"

* Kelli R. Marquardt, University of Arizona, "Mis(sed) Diagnosis: Physician Decision-Making and ADHD"

* Jill E. Furzer...