The Electronic Health Record (EHR) is an essential part of the modern medical system and impacts healthcare delivery, operations, and research. Unstructured text is attracting much attention despite structured information in the EHRs and has become an exciting research field. The success of the recent neural Natural Language Processing (NLP) method has led to a new direction for processing unstructured clinical notes. In this work, we create a python library for clinical texts, EHRKit. This library contains two main parts: MIMIC-III-specific functions and tasks specific functions. The first part introduces a list of interfaces for accessing MIMIC-III NOTEEVENTS data, including basic search, information retrieval, and information extraction. The second part integrates many third-party libraries for up to 12 off-shelf NLP tasks such as named entity recognition, summarization, machine translation, etc.

本文介绍了EHRKit python库，该库包含两个主要部分，MIMIC-III特定功能和任务特定功能，通过访问MIMIC-III NOTEEVENTS数据并整合多个第三方库，以处理包括实体识别、文本摘要、机器翻译等12个NLP任务的临床文本。

EHRKit：面向电子健康档案文本的Python自然语言处理工具包