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Patient similarity assessment, which identifies patients similar to a given patient, can help improve medical care. The assessment can be performed using Electronic Medical Records (EMRs). Patient similarity measurement requires converting…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Hoda Memarzadeh , Nasser Ghadiri , Matthias Samwald , Maryam Lotfi Shahreza

In this paper we study the problem of predicting clinical diagnoses from textual Electronic Health Records (EHR) data. We show the importance of this problem in medical community and present comprehensive historical review of the problem…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Pavel Blinov , Manvel Avetisian , Vladimir Kokh , Dmitry Umerenkov , Alexander Tuzhilin

Electronic medical record (EMR) data contains historical sequences of visits of patients, and each visit contains rich information, such as patient demographics, hospital utilisation and medical codes, including diagnosis, procedure and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-24 Bhagya Hettige , Yuan-Fang Li , Weiqing Wang , Suong Le , Wray Buntine

Electronic Health Records are large repositories of valuable clinical data, with a significant portion stored in unstructured text format. This textual data includes clinical events (e.g., disorders, symptoms, findings, medications and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Shubham Agarwal , Thomas Searle , Mart Ratas , Anthony Shek , James Teo , Richard Dobson

Electronic health records (EHRs) provide comprehensive patient data which could be better used to enhance informed decision-making, resource allocation, and coordinated care, thereby optimising healthcare delivery. However, in mental…

The data available in Electronic Health Records (EHRs) provides the opportunity to transform care, and the best way to provide better care for one patient is through learning from the data available on all other patients. Temporal modelling…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-08 Zeljko Kraljevic , Anthony Shek , Daniel Bean , Rebecca Bendayan , James Teo , Richard Dobson

In electronic health records (EHRs), irregular time-series (ITS) occur naturally due to patient health dynamics, reflected by irregular hospital visits, diseases/conditions and the necessity to measure different vitals signs at each visit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Vinod Kumar Chauhan , Anshul Thakur , Odhran O'Donoghue , David A. Clifton

The widespread adoption of Electronic Health Records (EHR) has significantly increased the amount of available healthcare data. This has allowed models inspired by Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Computer Vision, which scale…

Synthetic Electronic Health Records (EHR) have emerged as a pivotal tool in advancing healthcare applications and machine learning models, particularly for researchers without direct access to healthcare data. Although existing methods,…

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

Information in electronic health records (EHR), such as clinical narratives, examination reports, lab measurements, demographics, and other patient encounter entries, can be transformed into appropriate data representations that can be used…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-23 Wei-Hung Weng , Peter Szolovits

Distributed representations of medical concepts have been used to support downstream clinical tasks recently. Electronic Health Records (EHR) capture different aspects of patients' hospital encounters and serve as a rich source for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-01-07 Shaika Chowdhury , Chenwei Zhang , Philip S. Yu , Yuan Luo

Clinicians spend a significant amount of time inputting free-form textual notes into Electronic Health Records (EHR) systems. Much of this documentation work is seen as a burden, reducing time spent with patients and contributing to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-09 Peter J. Liu

The broad adoption of Electronic Health Records (EHR) has led to vast amounts of data being accumulated on a patient's history, diagnosis, prescriptions, and lab tests. Advances in recommender technologies have the potential to utilize this…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Suman Bhoi , Lee Mong Li , Wynne Hsu

In this study, we introduce ExBEHRT, an extended version of BEHRT (BERT applied to electronic health records), and apply different algorithms to interpret its results. While BEHRT considers only diagnoses and patient age, we extend the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-14 Maurice Rupp , Oriane Peter , Thirupathi Pattipaka

The modelling of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) has the potential to drive more efficient allocation of healthcare resources, enabling early intervention strategies and advancing personalised healthcare. However, EHRs are challenging to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Joseph Enguehard , Dan Busbridge , Adam Bozson , Claire Woodcock , Nils Y. Hammerla

The wide implementation of electronic health record (EHR) systems facilitates the collection of large-scale health data from real clinical settings. Despite the significant increase in adoption of EHR systems, this data remains largely…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2018-10-26 Jinghe Zhang , Kamran Kowsari , James H. Harrison , Jennifer M. Lobo , Laura E. Barnes

Patient representation learning refers to learning a dense mathematical representation of a patient that encodes meaningful information from Electronic Health Records (EHRs). This is generally performed using advanced deep learning methods.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Yuqi Si , Jingcheng Du , Zhao Li , Xiaoqian Jiang , Timothy Miller , Fei Wang , W. Jim Zheng , Kirk Roberts

Electronic Health Records (EHRs) contain rich, longitudinal patient information across structured (e.g., labs, vitals, and imaging) and unstructured (e.g., clinical notes) modalities. While deep learning models such as RNNs and Transformers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Mohammad Al Olaimat , Shaika Chowdhury , Serdar Bozdag

Irregular sampling of time series in electronic health records (EHRs) is one of the main challenges for developing machine learning models. Additionally, the pattern of missing data in certain clinical variables is not at random but depends…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Hojjat Karami , David Atienza , Anisoara Ionescu