Healthcare is becoming a more and more important research topic recently. With the growing data in the healthcare domain, it offers a great opportunity for deep learning to improve the quality of medical service. However, the complexity of electronic health records (EHR) data is a challenge for the application of deep learning. Specifically, the data produced in the hospital admissions are monitored by the EHR system, which includes structured data like daily body temperature, and unstructured data like free text and laboratory measurements. Although there are some preprocessing frameworks proposed for specific EHR data, the clinical notes that contain significant clinical value are beyond the realm of their consideration. Besides, whether these different data from various views are all beneficial to the medical tasks and how to best utilize these data remain unclear. Therefore, in this paper, we first extract the accompanying clinical notes from EHR and propose a method to integrate these data, we also comprehensively study the different models and the data leverage methods for better medical task prediction. The results on two medical prediction tasks show that our fused model with different data outperforms the state-of-the-art method that without clinical notes, which illustrates the importance of our fusion method and the value of clinical note features. Our code is available at https: //github.com/emnlp-mimic/mimic.

本文提出了一种从医疗电子健康系统中提取伴随临床记录的方法，并使用这些数据综合研究了不同模型和数据利用方法对于更好的医疗任务预测的影响。结果表明，我们的融合模型优于不包含临床记录的最新方法，这证明了我们的融合方法的重要性和临床注意点特征的价值。

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