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Relational Learning for Sustainable Health

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Sustainable healthcare is a global need and requires better value–better health–for patients at lower cost. Predictive models have the opportunity to greatly increase value without increasing cost. Concrete examples include reducing heart attacks and reducing adverse drug events by accurately predicting them before they occur. In this paper we examine how accurately such events can be predicted presently and discuss a machine learning approach that produces accurate such predictive models.

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  1. School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA

    Sriraam Natarajan

  2. Center for Human Genetics, Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation, Marshfield, USA

    Peggy L. Peissig

  3. Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, USA

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Natarajan, S., Peissig, P.L., Page, D. (2016). Relational Learning for Sustainable Health. In: Lässig, J., Kersting, K., Morik, K. (eds) Computational Sustainability. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 645. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31858-5_11

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