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Healthcare systems continuously generate vast amounts of electronic health records (EHRs), commonly stored in the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) standard. Despite the wealth of information in these records, their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Sara Kothari , Ayush Gupta

In studies that rely on data from electronic health records (EHRs), unstructured text data such as clinical progress notes offer a rich source of information about patient characteristics and care that may be missing from structured data.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Reagan Mozer , Aaron R. Kaufman , Leo A. Celi , Luke Miratrix

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

Summarizing patient clinical notes is vital for reducing documentation burdens. Current manual summarization makes medical staff struggle. We propose an automatic method using LLMs, but long inputs cause LLMs to lose context, reducing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Guoqing Zhang , Keita Fukuyama , Kazumasa Kishimoto , Tomohiro Kuroda

A promising application of AI to healthcare is the retrieval of information from electronic health records (EHRs), e.g. to aid clinicians in finding relevant information for a consultation or to recruit suitable patients for a study. This…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-02 Claudia Schulz , Josh Levy-Kramer , Camille Van Assel , Miklos Kepes , Nils Hammerla

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

Clinicians often need to retrieve patient-specific information from electronic health records (EHRs), a task that is time-consuming and error-prone. We present a locally deployable Clinical Contextual Question Answering (CCQA) framework…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Mikko Saukkoriipi , Nicole Hernandez , Jaakko Sahlsten , Kimmo Kaski , Otso Arponen

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

Clinical prediction from structured electronic health records (EHRs) is challenging due to high dimensionality, heterogeneity, class imbalance, and distribution shift. While tabular in-context learning (TICL) and retrieval-augmented methods…

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 wide adoption of Electronic Health Records (EHR) has resulted in large amounts of clinical data becoming available, which promises to support service delivery and advance clinical and informatics research. Deep learning techniques have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-14 Thanh Nguyen-Duc , Natasha Mulligan , Gurdeep S. Mannu , Joao H. Bettencourt-Silva

The integration of multimodal Electronic Health Records (EHR) data has significantly improved clinical predictive capabilities. Leveraging clinical notes and multivariate time-series EHR, existing models often lack the medical context…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Yinghao Zhu , Changyu Ren , Shiyun Xie , Shukai Liu , Hangyuan Ji , Zixiang Wang , Tao Sun , Long He , Zhoujun Li , Xi Zhu , Chengwei Pan

Entity Resolution (ER) is a fundamental data quality improvement task that identifies and links records referring to the same real-world entity. Traditional ER approaches often rely on pairwise comparisons, which can be costly in terms of…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Jiajie Fu , Haitong Tang , Arijit Khan , Sharad Mehrotra , Xiangyu Ke , Yunjun Gao

Electronic Health Records (EHRs) have become increasingly popular to support clinical decision-making and healthcare in recent decades. EHRs usually contain heterogeneous information, such as structural data in tabular form and unstructured…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Hejie Cui , Xinyu Fang , Ran Xu , Xuan Kan , Joyce C. Ho , Carl Yang

Discharge summaries in Electronic Health Records (EHRs) are crucial for clinical decision-making, but their length and complexity make information extraction challenging, especially when dealing with accumulated summaries across multiple…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Sunjun Kweon , Jiyoun Kim , Heeyoung Kwak , Dongchul Cha , Hangyul Yoon , Kwanghyun Kim , Jeewon Yang , Seunghyun Won , Edward Choi

By processing electronic health records (EHRs) as natural language sequences, large language models (LLMs) have shown potential in clinical prediction tasks such as mortality prediction and phenotyping. However, longitudinal or highly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Mingcheng Zhu , Zhiyao Luo , Yu Liu , Tingting Zhu

Electronic Health Record (EHR) tables pose unique challenges among which is the presence of hidden contextual dependencies between medical features with a high level of data dimensionality and sparsity. This study presents the first…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Jesus Lovon , Martin Mouysset , Jo Oleiwan , Jose G. Moreno , Christine Damase-Michel , Lynda Tamine

Identifying patient cohorts is fundamental to numerous healthcare tasks, including clinical trial recruitment and retrospective studies. Current cohort retrieval methods in healthcare organizations rely on automated queries of structured…

The surging amount of biomedical literature & digital clinical records presents a growing need for text mining techniques that can not only identify but also semantically relate entities in unstructured data. In this paper we propose a text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Hasham Ul Haq , Veysel Kocaman , David Talby

Clinical text is rich in information, with mentions of treatment, medication and anatomy among many other clinical terms. Multiple terms can refer to the same core concepts which can be referred as a clinical entity. Ontologies like the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Akshit Achara , Sanand Sasidharan , Gagan N