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Electronic Health Records (EHRs) are rich sources of patient-level data, offering valuable resources for medical data analysis. However, privacy concerns often restrict access to EHRs, hindering downstream analysis. Current EHR…

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De-identification of electronic health records (EHR) is a vital step towards advancing health informatics research and maximising the use of available data. It is a two-step process where step one is the identification of protected health…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Vithya Yogarajan , Bernhard Pfahringer , Michael Mayo

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

Electronic health records (EHRs) contain vast amounts of complex data, but harmonizing and processing this information remains a challenging and costly task requiring significant clinical expertise. While large language models (LLMs) have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-02 João Matos , Jack Gallifant , Jian Pei , A. Ian Wong

Electronic health records (EHR's) are only a first step in capturing and utilizing health-related data - the problem is turning that data into useful information. Models produced via data mining and predictive analysis profile inherited…

Databases · Computer Science 2011-12-08 Casey Bennett , Thomas Doub

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

Robust machine learning relies on access to data that can be used with standardized frameworks in important tasks and the ability to develop models whose performance can be reasonably reproduced. In machine learning for healthcare, the…

Dense embedding-based retrieval is widely used for semantic search and ranking. However, conventional two-stage approaches, involving contrastive embedding learning followed by approximate nearest neighbor search (ANNS), can suffer from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Ramnath Kumar , Anshul Mittal , Nilesh Gupta , Aditya Kusupati , Inderjit Dhillon , Prateek Jain

Background: Electronic health records (EHRs) are a valuable resource for data-driven medical research. However, the presence of protected health information (PHI) makes EHRs unsuitable to be shared for research purposes. De-identification,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Aleksandar Kovačević , Bojana Bašaragin , Nikola Milošević , Goran Nenadić

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

The extraction of relevant data from Electronic Health Records (EHRs) is crucial to identifying symptoms and automating epidemiological surveillance processes. By harnessing the vast amount of unstructured text in EHRs, we can detect…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Juliano Genari , Guilherme Tegoni Goedert

With the recent availability of Electronic Health Records (EHR) and great opportunities they offer for advancing medical informatics, there has been growing interest in mining EHR for improving quality of care. Disease diagnosis due to its…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-04-24 Anahita Hosseini , Ting Chen , Wenjun Wu , Yizhou Sun , Majid Sarrafzadeh

We present a comprehensive analysis of deep learning approaches for Electronic Health Record (EHR) time-series imputation, examining how architectural and framework biases combine to influence model performance. Our investigation reveals…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Linglong Qian , Tao Wang , Jun Wang , Hugh Logan Ellis , Robin Mitra , Richard Dobson , Zina Ibrahim

This study applies Large Language Models (LLMs) to two foundational Electronic Health Record (EHR) data science tasks: structured data querying (using programmatic languages, Python/Pandas) and information extraction from unstructured…

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The robust development of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) causes a significant growth in sharing EHRs for clinical research. However, such a sharing makes it difficult to protect patient's privacy. A number of automated de-identification…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-11-19 Jie Qian , Nafees Qamar

Electronic health records (EHRs) are multimodal by nature, consisting of structured tabular features like lab tests and unstructured clinical notes. In real-life clinical practice, doctors use complementary multimodal EHR data sources to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Thao Minh Nguyen Phan , Cong-Tinh Dao , Chenwei Wu , Jian-Zhe Wang , Shun Liu , Jun-En Ding , David Restrepo , Feng Liu , Fang-Ming Hung , Wen-Chih Peng

The inherent complexity of structured longitudinal Electronic Health Records (EHR) data poses a significant challenge when integrated with Large Language Models (LLMs), which are traditionally tailored for natural language processing.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Yinghao Zhu , Zixiang Wang , Junyi Gao , Yuning Tong , Jingkun An , Weibin Liao , Ewen M. Harrison , Liantao Ma , Chengwei Pan

While randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are the gold-standard for establishing the efficacy and safety of a medical treatment, real-world evidence (RWE) generated from real-world data (RWD) has been vital in post-approval monitoring and…

Evaluating the clinical similarities between pairwise patients is a fundamental problem in healthcare informatics. A proper patient similarity measure enables various downstream applications, such as cohort study and treatment comparative…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-02-12 Zihao Zhu , Changchang Yin , Buyue Qian , Yu Cheng , Jishang Wei , Fei Wang

Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have led to remarkable progresses in medical consultation. However, existing medical LLMs overlook the essential role of Electronic Health Records (EHR) and focus primarily on diagnosis…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Weijieying Ren , Tianxiang Zhao , Lei Wang , Tianchun Wang , Vasant Honavar