Beyond Prediction: Longitudinal Reasoning in EHR-Integrated Clinical AI

CLAIM (Claim-Specific Citation Network audit, sometimes called CSN) is a forensic method for testing whether a scientific or medical claim's authority is supported by evidence or by citation dynamics. It detects citation bias, amplification, citation diversion, citation transmutation, dead-end citation, and back-door invention.

The ASSAY skill runs a structured, CLAIM-compatible extraction and integrity assessment on an article. Output is a verdict (sound, mixed, flagged, problematic, or cascade), a count of claims extracted, the central key claim, and an integrity note describing the structural read.

This scan restricts ASSAY to peer-reviewed publications and preprint servers. Journalism, opinion pieces, and government documents are evaluated under different frameworks (CAIHL for power and agency; editor's note for context).

ASSAY found the central claims partially supported. Some scaffolding holds; other parts of the argument lean on weaker or contested evidence. Read with the integrity note in mind.

Clinical AI architectures that perform longitudinal reasoning over EHR trajectories outperform point-in-time prediction models on tasks that require continuity (treatment response, relapse, decompensation), with the benchmark gain concentrated on the patients with the most extensive longitudinal records.

Total claims extracted from the article: 8. The key claim is the single most load-bearing assertion the rest of the argument depends on.

The architectural move from prediction to trajectory reasoning is the right move and the benchmark improvements are credible. The dependency-on-record-length claim is the patient-equity problem the preprint does not address: longitudinal advantage accrues to patients with deep EHR histories, who are systematically the well-insured, the multi-encounter, the in-system. The under-served patient with episodic care gets the worse model. Preprint, not peer-reviewed.

Editor's note: Longitudinal reasoning is what a clinician already does and what the current generation of clinical AI does not. If the next generation actually does it, the patient's narrative — the part that resists single-prediction summarization — becomes addressable. So does the patient's surveillance footprint.

Summary: arXiv: Architecture and benchmark for EHR-integrated clinical AI that performs longitudinal reasoning over a patient's record rather than point-in-time prediction — the shift from single-output models to trajectory-aware models.

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