Deep learning is impacting healthcare by helping identify high-risk patients. A proposed solution uses an interpretable deep learning model called RETAIN that uses attention mechanisms. RETAIN processes patient data like claims and lab results to provide clinically interpretable predictions and attention weights that mimic how doctors make decisions. This helps supplement human experts and allows for more proactive care of high-risk patients to improve outcomes and lower costs compared to traditional rule-based approaches. Trade-offs include needing more granular disease data and addressing class imbalances.