Experience Retrieval-Augmentation with Electronic Health Records Enables Accurate Discharge QA

Justice Ou, Tinglin Huang, Yilun Zhao, Ziyang Yu, Peiqing Lu, Yifei Shen, Rex Ying

ACL 2026 Main

Overview of the ExpRAG framework: indexing similar patients from EHR data, then retrieving their discharge reports for the LLM

ExpRAG retrieves similar patient experiences from electronic health records to improve discharge-related clinical question answering.

Citation

Justice Ou, Tinglin Huang, Yilun Zhao, Ziyang Yu, Peiqing Lu, Yifei Shen, and Rex Ying. 2026. Experience Retrieval-Augmentation with Electronic Health Records Enables Accurate Discharge QA. In Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 23406-23430.