Understanding the temporal progression of symptoms in clinical narratives is critical for disease monitoring, safety surveillance, and causality assessment. Clinical narratives, however, rarely provide explicit temporal anchors.
CliniCIRCA is a modular large‑language‑model framework that reconstructs longitudinal mental‑health patient journeys from raw electronic health record narratives. It temporally classifies clinical events in unstructured discharge summaries without explicit timestamps, producing 15,891 tagged events from 52 summaries and correcting 629 errors to create verified gold‑standard timelines. The framework then generates temporally grounded summaries, compressing each source by 1.52×, and scales to produce 1,000 silver‑standard timelines for training, showing that instruction tuning improves event extraction, temporal tagging, and summarization across models.
By Aiwei Ivy Zhang, Nimra Ishfaq, Mohit Chandra, Santiago Alvarez Lesmes, Adam Coscia, Khatiya Chelidze Moon, Xiaohan Ding, Munmun De Choudhury
arXiv:2606. 05994v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Medical knowledge graphs (MKGs) infused with clinical knowledge have been increasingly used to model electronic health records (EHRs) to support interpretable predictions in healthcare domain.
By Thummaluru Siddartha Reddy, Vempalli Naga Sai Saketh, Yash Punjabi, Mahesh Chandran
arXiv:2606. 05463v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Patient safety event triage, determining whether a clinical event is reportable under jurisdiction-specific policy, is a high-stakes task typically performed manually by patient safety experts.
By Keqi Han, Ryan Young, Annabel Strauss, Lindsey Hughes, Katharine M. Nesbitt, Nicole Schueler, Che Ngufor, Carl Yang, Yuan Xue, Zhijun Yin
arXiv:2607. 21307v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The reliance on unstructured free text for documenting clinical trial protocols creates a significant barrier to automated reasoning, cohort discovery, and trial simulation.
By Yan Huang, Xubing Hao, Xiaojin Li, Rashmie Abeysinghe, Xiaoqian Jiang, Licong Cui, Guo-Qiang Zhang
arXiv:2610.01938v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Exam-style accuracy does not establish whether large language models (LLMs) reason well over clinical records. We define clinical reasoning as integr...
By Zhangshu Joshua Jiang, Zina Ibrahim, James T. Teo
The paper introduces a paired benchmark to detect hindsight bias in clinical language models by comparing model responses to questions posed at a clinically relevant cutoff versus the full timeline. It uses 171 case reports (40 sepsis, 131 GLP‑1/diabetes) with both human‑annotated and LLM‑generated time‑series data, evaluating accuracy, hindsight trap rate, answer instability rate, and hindsight bias rate. Results show that exposing models to the full timeline consistently increases hindsight bias, while truncating the timeline mitigates bias without sacrificing accuracy.
By Misaki Matsuura, Sayantan Kumar, Ojas Kadam, Jeremy C. Weiss
arXiv:2602. 00541v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Clinical events captured in Electronic Health Records (EHR) are irregularly sampled and may consist of a mixture of discrete events and numerical measurements, such as laboratory values or treatment dosages.
By Zilin Jing, Vincent Jeanselme, Yuta Kobayashi, Simon A. Lee, Chao Pang, Aparajita Kashyap, Yanwei Li, Xinzhuo Jiang, Shalmali Joshi
arXiv:2602. 10385v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The contemporary paradigm of trajectory learning operates fundamentally at the level of group dynamics, systematically reducing individual-level complexity to fit group-level models, thus rendering effective patient subtyping difficult and individual-level modeling largely out of reach.
By Jia Li, Yu Hou, Rui Zhang
arXiv:2605. 01134v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The dominant noun-based modeling paradigm has fundamentally constrained AI development, precluding any adequate representation of the future as an open temporal dimension.
By Jia Li, Vipin Kumar, Rui Zhang
EviDx is a new framework for evidence-aware active diagnosis that pairs patient-specific diagnostic environments with a clinical scaffold and an observer-guided runtime harness. The framework constructs interactive environments from raw clinical cases, organizes role-specialized agents and evidence tools, and regulates diagnostic termination by tracking uncertainty and evidence coverage. Experiments demonstrate that EviDx improves diagnostic performance and process stability while revealing model-dependent capability boundaries.
By Lihang Zeng, Shaoting Zhang, Xiaofan Zhang
arXiv:2506. 04831v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Forecasting how a patient's condition is likely to evolve, including possible deterioration, recovery, treatment needs, and care transitions, could support more proactive and personalized care, but requires modeling heterogeneous and longitudinal electronic health record (EHR) data.
By Chantal Pellegrini, Ege \"Ozsoy, David Bani-Harouni, Matthias Keicher, Nassir Navab