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Continuity of care is crucial to ensuring positive health outcomes for patients discharged from an inpatient hospital setting, and improved information sharing can help. To share information, caregivers write discharge notes containing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-07 James Mullenbach , Yada Pruksachatkun , Sean Adler , Jennifer Seale , Jordan Swartz , T. Greg McKelvey , Hui Dai , Yi Yang , David Sontag

Electronic medical records (EMR) contain comprehensive patient information and are typically stored in a relational database with multiple tables. Effective and efficient patient information retrieval from EMR data is a challenging task for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-01-31 Ping Wang , Tian Shi , Chandan K. Reddy

Extracting relevant information from medical conversations and providing it to doctors and patients might help in addressing doctor burnout and patient forgetfulness. In this paper, we focus on extracting the Medication Regimen (dosage and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Sai P. Selvaraj , Sandeep Konam

Question answering (QA) has achieved promising progress recently. However, answering a question in real-world scenarios like the medical domain is still challenging, due to the requirement of external knowledge and the insufficient quantity…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Sheng Shen , Yaliang Li , Nan Du , Xian Wu , Yusheng Xie , Shen Ge , Tao Yang , Kai Wang , Xingzheng Liang , Wei Fan

Electronic Health Records (EHRs) are pivotal in clinical practices, yet their retrieval remains a challenge mainly due to semantic gap issues. Recent advancements in dense retrieval offer promising solutions but existing models, both…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Zhengyun Zhao , Huaiyuan Ying , Yue Zhong , Sheng Yu

An intelligent machine that can answer human questions based on electronic health records (EHR-QA) has a great practical value, such as supporting clinical decisions, managing hospital administration, and medical chatbots. Previous…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Seongsu Bae , Daeyoung Kim , Jiho Kim , Edward Choi

By summarizing longer consumer health questions into shorter and essential ones, medical question-answering systems can more accurately understand consumer intentions and retrieve suitable answers. However, medical question summarization is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Wenpeng Lu , Sibo Wei , Xueping Peng , Yi-fei Wang , Usman Naseem , Shoujin Wang

Medical Question Answering~(medical QA) systems play an essential role in assisting healthcare workers in finding answers to their questions. However, it is not sufficient to merely provide answers by medical QA systems because users might…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Wei Sun , Mingxiao Li , Damien Sileo , Jesse Davis , Marie-Francine Moens

This paper introduces MedMCQA, a new large-scale, Multiple-Choice Question Answering (MCQA) dataset designed to address real-world medical entrance exam questions. More than 194k high-quality AIIMS \& NEET PG entrance exam MCQs covering…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Ankit Pal , Logesh Kumar Umapathi , Malaikannan Sankarasubbu

Objective: Question answering (QA) systems have the potential to improve the quality of clinical care by providing health professionals with the latest and most relevant evidence. However, QA systems have not been widely adopted. This…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Gregory Kell , Angus Roberts , Serge Umansky , Linglong Qian , Davide Ferrari , Frank Soboczenski , Byron Wallace , Nikhil Patel , Iain J Marshall

In spoken question answering, QA systems are designed to answer questions from contiguous text spans within the related speech transcripts. However, the most natural way that human seek or test their knowledge is via human conversations.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Chenyu You , Nuo Chen , Fenglin Liu , Dongchao Yang , Yuexian Zou

Machine reading comprehension has made great progress in recent years owing to large-scale annotated datasets. In the clinical domain, however, creating such datasets is quite difficult due to the domain expertise required for annotation.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Xiang Yue , Bernal Jimenez Gutierrez , Huan Sun

We introduce MedXpertQA, a highly challenging and comprehensive benchmark to evaluate expert-level medical knowledge and advanced reasoning. MedXpertQA includes 4,460 questions spanning 17 specialties and 11 body systems. It includes two…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Yuxin Zuo , Shang Qu , Yifei Li , Zhangren Chen , Xuekai Zhu , Ermo Hua , Kaiyan Zhang , Ning Ding , Bowen Zhou

We present a novel method for obtaining high-quality, domain-targeted multiple choice questions from crowd workers. Generating these questions can be difficult without trading away originality, relevance or diversity in the answer options.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2017-07-20 Johannes Welbl , Nelson F. Liu , Matt Gardner

Question Answering (QA) is a natural language processing task that aims at obtaining relevant answers to user questions. While some progress has been made in this area, biomedical questions are still a challenge to most QA approaches, due…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Andre Lamurias , Diana Sousa , Francisco M. Couto

Clinical documentation is an important aspect of clinicians' daily work and often demands a significant amount of time. The BioNLP 2024 Shared Task on Streamlining Discharge Documentation (Discharge Me!) aims to alleviate this documentation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Jinghui Liu , Aaron Nicolson , Jason Dowling , Bevan Koopman , Anthony Nguyen

We publicly release a new large-scale dataset, called SearchQA, for machine comprehension, or question-answering. Unlike recently released datasets, such as DeepMind CNN/DailyMail and SQuAD, the proposed SearchQA was constructed to reflect…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-06-13 Matthew Dunn , Levent Sagun , Mike Higgins , V. Ugur Guney , Volkan Cirik , Kyunghyun Cho

This study aims to leverage state of the art language models to automate generating the "Brief Hospital Course" and "Discharge Instructions" sections of Discharge Summaries from the MIMIC-IV dataset, reducing clinicians' administrative…

We present a large-scale dataset for the task of rewriting an ill-formed natural language question to a well-formed one. Our multi-domain question rewriting MQR dataset is constructed from human contributed Stack Exchange question edit…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-22 Zewei Chu , Mingda Chen , Jing Chen , Miaosen Wang , Kevin Gimpel , Manaal Faruqui , Xiance Si

Clinical problem-solving requires processing of semantic medical knowledge such as illness scripts and numerical medical knowledge of diagnostic tests for evidence-based decision-making. As large language models (LLMs) show promising…