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Efficient screening and early diagnosis of HIV are critical for reducing onward transmission. Although large scale laboratory testing is not feasible, the widespread adoption of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) offers new opportunities to…

Electronic health records (EHRs) store an extensive array of patient information, encompassing medical histories, diagnoses, treatments, and test outcomes. These records are crucial for enabling healthcare providers to make well-informed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-07 Yu-Neng Chuang , Ruixiang Tang , Xiaoqian Jiang , Xia Hu

Electronic health records (EHRs) house crucial patient data in clinical notes. As these notes grow in volume and complexity, manual extraction becomes challenging. This work introduces a natural language interface using large language…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Ran Elgedawy , Ioana Danciu , Maria Mahbub , Sudarshan Srinivasan

With the rapid development of artificial intelligence, large language models (LLMs) have shown promising capabilities in mimicking human-level language comprehension and reasoning. This has sparked significant interest in applying LLMs to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Mingze Yuan , Peng Bao , Jiajia Yuan , Yunhao Shen , Zifan Chen , Yi Xie , Jie Zhao , Yang Chen , Li Zhang , Lin Shen , Bin Dong

The utilization of large language models (LLMs) in the Healthcare domain has generated both excitement and concern due to their ability to effectively respond to freetext queries with certain professional knowledge. This survey outlines the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Kai He , Rui Mao , Qika Lin , Yucheng Ruan , Xiang Lan , Mengling Feng , Erik Cambria

Large language models (LLMs) have emerged as powerful tools with transformative potential across numerous domains, including healthcare and medicine. In the medical domain, LLMs hold promise for tasks ranging from clinical decision support…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Xiaolan Chen , Jiayang Xiang , Shanfu Lu , Yexin Liu , Mingguang He , Danli Shi

Large language models (LLMs) have performed well across various clinical natural language processing tasks, despite not being directly trained on electronic health record (EHR) data. In this work, we examine how popular open-source LLMs…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Furong Jia , David Sontag , Monica Agrawal

Large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT have excited scientists across fields; in medicine, one source of excitement is the potential applications of LLMs trained on electronic health record (EHR) data. But there are tough questions we…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Weipeng Zhou , Danielle Bitterman , Majid Afshar , Timothy A. Miller

Research is a tertiary priority in the EHR, where the priorities are patient care and billing. Because of this, the data is not standardized or formatted in a manner easily adapted to machine learning approaches. Data may be missing for a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-07-25 Brett K. Beaulieu-Jones

Large language models (LLMs) have immense potential to make information more accessible, particularly in medicine, where complex medical jargon can hinder patient comprehension of clinical notes. We developed a patient-facing tool using…

The presence of detailed clinical information in electronic health record (EHR) systems presents promising prospects for enhancing patient care through automated retrieval techniques. Nevertheless, it is widely acknowledged that accessing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Abderrahim Oussama Batouche , Eugen Czeizler , Miika Koskinen , Tuomas Mirtti , Antti Sakari Rannikko

Electronic health records (EHRs) form an invaluable resource for training clinical decision support systems. To leverage the potential of such systems in high-risk applications, we need large, structured tabular datasets on which we can…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Paloma Rabaey , Adrick Tench , Stefan Heytens , Thomas Demeester

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

Substantial increase in the use of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) has opened new frontiers for predictive healthcare. However, while EHR systems are nearly ubiquitous, they lack a unified code system for representing medical concepts.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Kyunghoon Hur , Jiyoung Lee , Jungwoo Oh , Wesley Price , Young-Hak Kim , Edward Choi

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated exceptional capabilities in planning and tool utilization as autonomous agents, but few have been developed for medical problem-solving. We propose EHRAgent, an LLM agent empowered with a code…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Wenqi Shi , Ran Xu , Yuchen Zhuang , Yue Yu , Jieyu Zhang , Hang Wu , Yuanda Zhu , Joyce Ho , Carl Yang , May D. Wang

Electronic health records (EHRs) have improved data accessibility but have also introduced cognitive burden for physicians, given the sheer volume and complexity of the data involved. Advances in large language models (LLMs) create new…

Contemporary large language models (LLMs) may have utility for processing unstructured, narrative free-text clinical data contained in electronic health records (EHRs) -- a particularly important use-case for mental health where a majority…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Niall Taylor , Andrey Kormilitzin , Isabelle Lorge , Alejo Nevado-Holgado , Dan W Joyce

Electronic Health Records (EHRs) hold immense potential for advancing healthcare, offering rich, longitudinal data that combines structured information with valuable insights from unstructured clinical notes. However, the unstructured…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Huaiyuan Ying , Hongyi Yuan , Jinsen Lu , Zitian Qu , Yang Zhao , Zhengyun Zhao , Isaac Kohane , Tianxi Cai , Sheng Yu

Clinician notes are a rich source of patient information but often contain inconsistencies due to varied writing styles, colloquialisms, abbreviations, medical jargon, grammatical errors, and non-standard formatting. These inconsistencies…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Daniel B. Hier , Michael D. Carrithers , Thanh Son Do , Tayo Obafemi-Ajayi

Identifying medication discontinuations in electronic health records (EHRs) is vital for patient safety but is often hindered by information being buried in unstructured notes. This study aims to evaluate the capabilities of advanced…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Chong Shao , Douglas Snyder , Chiran Li , Bowen Gu , Kerry Ngan , Chun-Ting Yang , Jiageng Wu , Richard Wyss , Kueiyu Joshua Lin , Jie Yang