2017 Machine Learning Competition

"Hospital readmission is a high-priority health care quality measure and target for cost reduction. Despite broad interest in readmission, relatively little research has focused on patients with diabetes. The burden of diabetes among hospitalized patients, however, is substantial, growing, and costly, and readmissions contribute a significant portion of this burden. Reducing readmission rates of diabetic patients has the potential to greatly reduce health care costs while simultaneously improving care." This competition will be using a de-identified abstract (Strack et al. 2014) of the Health Facts database (Cerner Corporation, Kansas City, MO).