DT-Transformer: A Foundation Model for Disease Trajectory Prediction on a Real-world Health System
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Title:DT-Transformer: A Foundation Model for Disease Trajectory Prediction on a Real-world Health System
Abstract:Accurate disease trajectory prediction is critical for early intervention, resource allocation, and improving long-term outcomes. While electronic health records (EHRs) provide a rich longitudinal view of patient health in clinical environments, models trained on curated research cohorts may not reflect routine deployment settings, and those trained on single-hospital datasets capture only fragments of each patient's trajectory. This highlights the importance of leveraging large, multi-hospital health systems for training and validation to better reflect real-world clinical complexity. In this work, we develop DT-Transformer, a foundation model trained on 57.1M structured EHR entries over 1.7M patients from Mass General Brigham (MGB), spanning 11 hospitals and a broad network of outpatient clinics. DT-Transformer achieves strong discrimination in both held-out and prospective validation settings. Next-event prediction achieves a median age- and sex-stratified AUC of 0.871 across 896 disease categories, with all categories exceeding AUC 0.5. These results support health system-scale training as a path toward foundation models suited to real-world clinical forecasting.
| Comments: | Work in Progress |
| Subjects: | Machine Learning (cs.LG); Computation and Language (cs.CL) |
| Cite as: | arXiv:2605.14227 [cs.LG] |
| (or arXiv:2605.14227v1 [cs.LG] for this version) | |
| https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2605.14227
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