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Electronic Health Records (EHRs) contain a large volume of heterogeneous patient data, which are useful at the point of care and for retrospective research. These data are typically stored in relational databases. Gaining an integrated view…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-06-04 Dina Levy-Lambert , Jen J. Gong , Tristan Naumann , Tom J. Pollard , John V. Guttag

Multimodal electronic health record (EHR) data can offer a holistic assessment of a patient's health status, supporting various predictive healthcare tasks. Recently, several studies have embraced the multitask learning approach in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Muhao Xu , Zhenfeng Zhu , Youru Li , Shuai Zheng , Yawei Zhao , Kunlun He , Yao Zhao

Generating synthetic Electronic Health Records (EHRs) offers significant potential for data augmentation, privacy-preserving data sharing, and improving machine learning model training. We propose a novel tokenization strategy tailored for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Hojjat Karami , David Atienza , Anisoara Ionescu

Electronic Health Records (EHRs) enable deep learning for clinical predictions, but the optimal method for representing patient data remains unclear due to inconsistent evaluation practices. We present the first systematic benchmark to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Tianyi Chen , Mingcheng Zhu , Zhiyao Luo , Tingting Zhu

Biobanks with genetics-linked electronic health records (EHR) have opened up opportunities to study associations between genetic, social, or environmental factors and longitudinal lab biomarkers. However, in EHRs, the timing of patient…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-05-23 Jiacong Du , Xu Shi , Bhramar Mukherjee

Electronic Health Records (EHRs), comprising diverse clinical data such as diagnoses, medications, and laboratory results, hold great promise for translational research. EHR-derived data have advanced disease prevention, improved clinical…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-09-09 Yinjie Wang , Doudou Zhou , Yue Liu , Junwei Lu , Tianxi Cai

Electronic health records (EHRs) are longitudinal records of a patient's interactions with healthcare systems. A patient's EHR data is organized as a three-level hierarchy from top to bottom: patient journey - all the experiences of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Xueping Peng , Guodong Long , Tao Shen , Sen Wang , Jing Jiang , Chengqi Zhang

Electronic Health Records (EHRs) have become increasingly popular to support clinical decision-making and healthcare in recent decades. EHRs usually contain heterogeneous information, such as structural data in tabular form and unstructured…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Hejie Cui , Xinyu Fang , Ran Xu , Xuan Kan , Joyce C. Ho , Carl Yang

Electronic Health Records (EHRs) are commonly used by the machine learning community for research on problems specifically related to health care and medicine. EHRs have the advantages that they can be easily distributed and contain many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-08 Kieran Chin-Cheong , Thomas Sutter , Julia E. Vogt

Electronic health records (EHR) contain valuable longitudinal patient-level information, yet most statistical methods reduce the irregular timing of EHR codes into simple counts, thereby discarding rich temporal structure. Existing temporal…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-08-29 Parker Knight , Doudou Zhou , Zongqi Xia , Tianxi Cai , Junwei Lu

Electronic Health Records (EHRs) contain sensitive patient information, which presents privacy concerns when sharing such data. Synthetic data generation is a promising solution to mitigate these risks, often relying on deep generative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Taha Ceritli , Ghadeer O. Ghosheh , Vinod Kumar Chauhan , Tingting Zhu , Andrew P. Creagh , David A. Clifton

Electronic health record (EHR) data has emerged as a valuable resource for analyzing patient health status. However, the prevalence of missing data in EHR poses significant challenges to existing methods, leading to spurious correlations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Zhihao Yu , Xu Chu , Yujie Jin , Yasha Wang , Junfeng Zhao

We propose a categorical matrix factorization method to infer latent diseases from electronic health records (EHR) data in an unsupervised manner. A latent disease is defined as an unknown biological aberration that causes a set of common…

Applications · Statistics 2019-02-15 Yang Ni , Peter Mueller , Yuan Ji

Electronic health record (EHR) systems contain a wealth of multimodal clinical data including structured data like clinical codes and unstructured data such as clinical notes. However, many existing EHR-focused studies has traditionally…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-08-20 Tianxi Cai , Feiqing Huang , Ryumei Nakada , Linjun Zhang , Doudou Zhou

This paper presents a novel approach to simulating electronic health records (EHRs) using diffusion probabilistic models (DPMs). Specifically, we demonstrate the effectiveness of DPMs in synthesising longitudinal EHRs that capture…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Nicholas I-Hsien Kuo , Louisa Jorm , Sebastiano Barbieri

Effective representation learning of electronic health records is a challenging task and is becoming more important as the availability of such data is becoming pervasive. The data contained in these records are irregular and contain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Sajad Darabi , Mohammad Kachuee , Shayan Fazeli , Majid Sarrafzadeh

This paper develops the first question answering dataset (DrugEHRQA) containing question-answer pairs from both structured tables and unstructured notes from a publicly available Electronic Health Record (EHR). EHRs contain patient records,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Jayetri Bardhan , Anthony Colas , Kirk Roberts , Daisy Zhe Wang

Electronic health records (EHR) data have considerable variability in data completeness across sites and patients. Lack of "EHR data-continuity" or "EHR data-discontinuity", defined as "having medical information recorded outside the reach…

Artificial intelligence (AI) has demonstrated significant potential in transforming healthcare through the analysis and modeling of electronic health records (EHRs). However, the inherent heterogeneity, temporal irregularity, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Weijieying Ren , Jingxi Zhu , Zehao Liu , Tianxiang Zhao , Vasant Honavar

Synthetic health data have the potential to mitigate privacy concerns when sharing data to support biomedical research and the development of innovative healthcare applications. Modern approaches for data generation based on machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-11 Chao Yan , Yao Yan , Zhiyu Wan , Ziqi Zhang , Larsson Omberg , Justin Guinney , Sean D. Mooney , Bradley A. Malin