arXiv Machine Learning

GLoC-EHR: Evidence-Cited Clinical Reasoning over Global Context and Local EHR Events

GLoC-EHR is a multimodal language model that processes electronic health records by combining a fixed-size global memory of the entire patient trajectory with a local memory of selected events. It generates hospital-course summaries and masked concept descriptions, then is fine‑tuned to cite evidence before answering clinical questions, using group relative policy optimization to reward correct, evidence‑supported responses. On MIMIC‑IV outcome tasks, GLoC‑EHR achieves the highest macro AUROC among compared models when answering directly, and maintains strong performance with evidence‑cited reasoning while adding distinct supported findings from the local memory.

arXiv AI
Jul 13

Evaluating Retrieval-Augmented Generation vs. Long-Context Input for Clinical Reasoning over EHRs

arXiv:2508. 14817v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Objective: To evaluate whether retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) can serve as an efficient alternative to long-context prompting for clinical reasoning over electronic health records (EHRs).

By Skatje Myers, Dmitriy Dligach, Timothy A. Miller, Samantha Barr, James Landefeld, Yanjun Gao, Matthew Churpek, Anoop Mayampurath, Majid Afshar
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 24

PORTER: Language-Grounded Event Representations for Portable Structured EHR Foundation Models

arXiv:2606. 24102v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Most electronic health record (EHR) foundation models encode clinical events as discrete event tokens from a fixed vocabulary and therefore cannot directly represent events containing unseen concepts or new combinations of concepts and attributes such as numeric values.

By Lin Lawrence Guo, Adam Paul Yan, Emily Vettese, Lillian Sung
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 25

Clinical Intent Extraction: A FHIR-Aligned Representation and the CIRCA Benchmark

The paper introduces Clinical Intent Extraction (CIE), a task that transforms fragmented clinical action annotations into complete structured records called Clinical Intent Representation (CIR). CIR decomposes each action into verb, type, coded target, timing, condition, request‑intent (aligned to HL7 FHIR) and modality, adding dimensions absent in prior datasets. By re‑expressing five heterogeneous corpora into CIR, the authors create CIRCA, a benchmark of 10,011 harmonized intents with human‑validated subsets, crosswalks, and a deterministic FHIR R4 mapper, and demonstrate that existing models perform poorly on the full task, highlighting the need for targeted development.

By Alexander Apartsin, Yehudit Aperstein
arXiv AI
4d ago

CoEM: Empowering Long-Context Reasoning with Commit-on-Evidence Memory

CoEM introduces a Commit-on-Evidence Memory system that learns when to compress source evidence into compact memory facts while preserving potentially useful excerpts verbatim in a pending set. The system uses a learned policy to decide whether to promote, retain, or discard each pending excerpt as new context arrives, and a frozen verifier ensures only supported facts are committed. Reinforcement learning trains this policy with step-level evidence rewards and final answer rewards, leading to consistent improvements in long-context reasoning, achieving 10.4–11.4 F1 points over the strongest baseline on 6,400-document inputs.

By Jingguang Li, Yebo Wu, Zuyi Guo, Kailang Ma, Xianjie Dai, Han Zheng, Benwang Chen, Li Li, Can Rong, Heye Huang