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Objective: Applying large language models (LLMs) to the clinical domain is challenging due to the context-heavy nature of processing medical records. Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) offers a solution by facilitating reasoning over…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Skatje Myers , Timothy A. Miller , Yanjun Gao , Matthew M. Churpek , Anoop Mayampurath , Dmitriy Dligach , Majid Afshar

Electronic health record (EHR) systems present clinicians with vast repositories of clinical information, creating a significant cognitive burden where critical details are easily overlooked. While Large Language Models (LLMs) offer…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Samuel Thio , Matthew Lewis , Spiros Denaxas , Richard JB Dobson

Electronic Health Records (EHRs) have become the primary form of medical data-keeping across the United States. Federal law restricts the sharing of any EHR data that contains protected health information (PHI). De-identification, the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Abdullah Ahmed , Adeel Abbasi , Carsten Eickhoff

The development of electronic health records (EHR) systems has enabled the collection of a vast amount of digitized patient data. However, utilizing EHR data for predictive modeling presents several challenges due to its unique…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Jiaqi Wang , Junyu Luo , Muchao Ye , Xiaochen Wang , Yuan Zhong , Aofei Chang , Guanjie Huang , Ziyi Yin , Cao Xiao , Jimeng Sun , Fenglong Ma

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

Patient cohort retrieval is a pivotal task in medical research and clinical practice, enabling the identification of specific patient groups from extensive electronic health records (EHRs). In this work, we address the challenge of cohort…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Pranav Jadhav

Dense neural text retrieval has achieved promising results on open-domain Question Answering (QA), where latent representations of questions and passages are exploited for maximum inner product search in the retrieval process. However,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Ye Liu , Kazuma Hashimoto , Yingbo Zhou , Semih Yavuz , Caiming Xiong , Philip S. Yu

An increasing amount of research is being devoted to applying machine learning methods to electronic health record (EHR) data for various clinical purposes. This growing area of research has exposed the challenges of the accessibility of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-22 Mehak Gupta , Brennan Gallamoza , Nicolas Cutrona , Pranjal Dhakal , Raphael Poulain , Rahmatollah Beheshti

In this paper, we present our approach to extracting structured information from unstructured Electronic Health Records (EHR) [2] which can be used to, for example, study adverse drug reactions in patients due to chemicals in their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-01-30 Amogh Kamat Tarcar , Aashis Tiwari , Vineet Naique Dhaimodker , Penjo Rebelo , Rahul Desai , Dattaraj Rao

Objective: Medical relations are the core components of medical knowledge graphs that are needed for healthcare artificial intelligence. However, the requirement of expert annotation by conventional algorithm development processes creates a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-09 Yucong Lin , Keming Lu , Yulin Chen , Chuan Hong , Sheng Yu

Accessing longitudinal multimodal Electronic Healthcare Records (EHRs) is challenging due to privacy concerns, which hinders the use of ML for healthcare applications. Synthetic EHRs generation bypasses the need to share sensitive real…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Zifeng Wang , Jimeng Sun

The extraction of critical patient information from Electronic Health Records (EHRs) poses significant challenges due to the complexity and unstructured nature of the data. Traditional machine learning approaches often fail to capture…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Zhimeng Luo , Abhibha Gupta , Adam Frisch , Daqing He

Background: Electronic Health Records (EHRs) contain rich information of patients' health history, which usually include both structured and unstructured data. There have been many studies focusing on distilling valuable information from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-10 Ziyi Liu , Jiaqi Zhang , Yongshuai Hou , Xinran Zhang , Ge Li , Yang Xiang

Clinical trials are essential for drug development but often suffer from expensive, inaccurate and insufficient patient recruitment. The core problem of patient-trial matching is to find qualified patients for a trial, where patient…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Xingyao Zhang , Cao Xiao , Lucas M. Glass , Jimeng Sun

Despite the growing availability of Electronic Health Record (EHR) data, researchers often face substantial barriers in effectively using these data for translational research due to their complexity, heterogeneity, and lack of standardized…

Due to patient privacy protection concerns, machine learning research in healthcare has been undeniably slower and limited than in other application domains. High-quality, realistic, synthetic electronic health records (EHRs) can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Huan He , Shifan Zhao , Yuanzhe Xi , Joyce C Ho

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

Electronic Health Records (EHR) store clinical documentation as base64 encoded attachments in FHIR DocumentReference resources, which makes semantic question answering difficult. Traditional vector database methods often miss nuanced…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Tarun Kumar Chawdhury , Jon D. Duke

Dense Retrieval (DR) reaches state-of-the-art results in first-stage retrieval, but little is known about the mechanisms that contribute to its success. Therefore, in this work, we conduct an interpretation study of recently proposed DR…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Jingtao Zhan , Jiaxin Mao , Yiqun Liu , Jiafeng Guo , Min Zhang , Shaoping Ma

Healthcare is becoming a more and more important research topic recently. With the growing data in the healthcare domain, it offers a great opportunity for deep learning to improve the quality of medical service. However, the complexity of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Bo Yang , Lijun Wu