The Impact of Machine Learning on Healthcare

I am not working in the health-care field, but I met several people who are working at the intersection between machine learning and health-care. Mias Lab) focusses on collecting and integrating omics data from various online databases and resources to predict risk factors for certain diseases. And Samantha Kleinberg, Author of Why, is doing remarkable research, applying and developing various statistical modeling techniques related to health care (Samantha Kleinberg). Looking at the biomedical literature, I think that the classic approach for characterizing the function of a particular protein or gene is to look at it in isolation (knocking it out or overexpressing) to link it to a certain phenotype. This bottom-up approach is certainly necessary to identify the key players related to health.