# Clinical text: EHR notes and pathology reports

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## TL;DR

Much of what is known about a patient sits in free text, in clinic notes and pathology reports; language models are now used to read it and to pair it with slides.

## Summary

An electronic health record is the systematised collection of a patient's health information in digital form, shareable across care settings (Wikipedia). Pathology reports are the free-text account of what the pathologist saw, with the diagnosis, grade, margins and receptor results. Vision-language pathology models such as CONCH and TITAN align slide images with report text so that a slide can be searched or described in words; the text carries protected health information, so it is rarely public.

## Fields

- Kind: Term
- Last checked: 2026-09-24
- Also known as: EHR text; electronic health record text; free-text clinical notes; pathology report text; pathology reports; clinical notes; unstructured clinical data
- Tags: cansim-terms

## Notes

- Listed in the CanSim terms map 1.0.0 (docs/onco/terms.json, generated 2026-09-24), CC BY 4.0, attribution: CanSim project, an open, public-data-first cancer foundation-model programme; CanSim page path /terms/ehr-text.

## Sources

- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_health_record
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_health_record

## Connected records

- terms: [Cancer AI vocabulary (CanSim terms map)](https://onco.cc/terms/cancer-ai-vocabulary/), [Digital pathology and whole-slide images (WSI)](https://onco.cc/terms/digital-pathology-wsi/), [HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act)](https://onco.cc/terms/hipaa/), [RxNorm drug nomenclature](https://onco.cc/terms/rxnorm/)
- technologies: [TITAN (whole-slide multimodal model)](https://onco.cc/technologies/titan/)

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