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Area of Science:

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Medical Informatics
  • Clinical Data Management

Background:

  • Clinicians face challenges accessing complex patient data from electronic health records (EHRs).
  • Current data retrieval processes rely on data engineers, which is inefficient and time-consuming.
  • There is a need for direct, natural language interaction with EHR systems for clinical decision-making.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To introduce EHRAgent, a large language model (LLM) agent designed for autonomous interaction with EHR systems.
  • To enable clinicians to retrieve complex patient information using natural language queries.
  • To improve the efficiency and accuracy of clinical data extraction from multi-tabular EHR data.

Main Methods:

  • Formulating EHR data retrieval as a multi-tabular reasoning and tool-use planning task.
  • Developing EHRAgent with accumulative domain knowledge and robust coding capabilities for autonomous code generation and execution.
  • Injecting relevant medical information to enhance EHRAgent's reasoning about clinical queries.
  • Integrating interactive coding and execution feedback for iterative code improvement.

Main Results:

  • EHRAgent demonstrated strong performance in tackling complex clinical tasks.
  • The system successfully decomposed complex queries into manageable actions using external toolsets.
  • Experiments on three real-world EHR datasets showed EHRAgent outperformed the strongest baseline by up to 29.6% in success rate.
  • EHRAgent effectively learned from error messages to iteratively improve code generation.

Conclusions:

  • EHRAgent empowers clinicians to directly interact with EHRs using natural language, reducing reliance on data engineers.
  • The LLM agent shows significant potential for improving the efficiency of clinical data retrieval and analysis.
  • EHRAgent's ability to autonomously generate, execute, and refine code makes it a valuable tool for complex clinical tasks.