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The utilization of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) for clinical risk prediction is on the rise. However, strict privacy regulations limit access to comprehensive health records, making it challenging to apply standard machine learning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Angeela Acharya , Sulabh Shrestha , Anyi Chen , Joseph Conte , Sanja Avramovic , Siddhartha Sikdar , Antonios Anastasopoulos , Sanmay Das

Despite the proven effectiveness of Transformer neural networks across multiple domains, their performance with Electronic Health Records (EHR) can be nuanced. The unique, multidimensional sequential nature of EHR data can sometimes make…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-13 Yogesh Kumar , Alexander Ilin , Henri Salo , Sangita Kulathinal , Maarit K. Leinonen , Pekka Marttinen

The extraction and analysis of insights from medical data, primarily stored in free-text formats by healthcare workers, presents significant challenges due to its unstructured nature. Medical coding, a crucial process in healthcare, remains…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Mikhail Kulyabin , Gleb Sokolov , Aleksandr Galaida , Andreas Maier , Tomas Arias-Vergara

Electronic Health Records (EHRs) are typically stored as time-stamped encounter records. Observing temporal relationship between medical records is an integral part of interpreting the information. Hence, statistical analysis of EHRs…

Applications · Statistics 2020-07-29 Anne Woods , Craig Meyer , Brian Sauer , Beth Cohen

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

Objectives: Electronic health records (EHRs) are only a first step in capturing and utilizing health-related data - the challenge is turning that data into useful information. Furthermore, EHRs are increasingly likely to include data…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-08-20 Casey Bennett , Tom Doub , Rebecca Selove

We present a self-supervised, time-to-event (TTE) foundation model called MOTOR (Many Outcome Time Oriented Representations) which is pretrained on timestamped sequences of events in electronic health records (EHR) and health insurance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Ethan Steinberg , Jason Fries , Yizhe Xu , Nigam Shah

Developing high-performance entity normalization algorithms that can alleviate the term variation problem is of great interest to the biomedical community. Although deep learning-based methods have been successfully applied to biomedical…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-08-12 Zongcheng Ji , Qiang Wei , Hua Xu

Electronic health record (EHR) data is an essential data source for machine learning for health, but researchers and clinicians face steep barriers in extracting and validating EHR data for modeling. Existing tools incur trade-offs between…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Ziyong Ma , Richard D. Boyce , Adam Perer , Venkatesh Sivaraman

In this paper, we introduce EHR-SeqSQL, a novel sequential text-to-SQL dataset for Electronic Health Record (EHR) databases. EHR-SeqSQL is designed to address critical yet underexplored aspects in text-to-SQL parsing: interactivity,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Jaehee Ryu , Seonhee Cho , Gyubok Lee , Edward Choi

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

Electronic Health Records (EHRs) contain a large volume of heterogeneous patient data, which are useful at the point of care and for retrospective research. These data are typically stored in relational databases. Gaining an integrated view…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-06-04 Dina Levy-Lambert , Jen J. Gong , Tristan Naumann , Tom J. Pollard , John V. Guttag

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

Making the most use of abundant information in electronic health records (EHR) is rapidly becoming an important topic in the medical domain. Recent work presented a promising framework that embeds entire features in raw EHR data regardless…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Eunbyeol Cho , Min Jae Lee , Kyunghoon Hur , Jiyoun Kim , Jinsung Yoon , Edward Choi

The use of machine learning and AI on electronic health records (EHRs) holds substantial potential for clinical insight. However, this approach faces challenges due to data heterogeneity, sparsity, temporal misalignment, and limited labeled…

Identification of key variables such as medications, diseases, relations from health records and clinical notes has a wide range of applications in the clinical domain. n2c2 2022 provided shared tasks on challenges in natural language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Shouvon Sarker , Xishuang Dong , Lijun Qian

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

Electronic health records (EHR) are widely believed to hold a profusion of actionable insights, encrypted in an irregular, semi-structured format, amidst a loud noise background. To simplify learning patterns of health and disease, medical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-13 David A. Bloore , Romane Gauriau , Anna L. Decker , Jacob Oppenheim

The development of Electronic Health Records summarization systems has revolutionized patient data management. Previous research advanced this field by adapting Large Language Models for clinical tasks, using diverse datasets to generate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Ruvarashe Madzime , Clement Nyirenda

Digital healthcare systems have enabled the collection of mass healthcare data in electronic healthcare records (EHRs), allowing artificial intelligence solutions for various healthcare prediction tasks. However, existing studies often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Zi Cai , Yu Liu , Zhiyao Luo , Tingting Zhu