BioMedLM represents a breakthrough in biomedical natural language processing. This specialized language model has been trained on extensive medical literature, clinical notes, and healthcare documentation. In the latest version, BioMedLM demonstrates remarkable capabilities in understanding complex medical terminology, extracting clinical entities, and generating accurate medical summaries.
Compared to general-purpose language models, BioMedLM shows significant improvements in domain-specific tasks. For instance, in the MedQA benchmark, the model's accuracy has increased from 65% to 82.3% in the current version. This advancement stems from specialized pre-training on PubMed abstracts and clinical trial data.
Beyond clinical text understanding, this version offers enhanced capabilities in drug-drug interaction detection, adverse event extraction, and ICD-10 coding assistance.
2. Evaluation Results
Comprehensive Benchmark Results
Benchmark
PubMedBERT
BioBERT
ClinicalBERT
BioMedLM
Clinical NLP Tasks
Clinical NER
0.823
0.835
0.841
0.870
Drug Interaction
0.712
0.728
0.739
0.804
Medical QA
0.654
0.668
0.682
0.750
Document Analysis
Disease Classification
0.789
0.801
0.812
0.895
Clinical Inference
0.701
0.715
0.724
0.799
Symptom Extraction
0.756
0.769
0.778
0.830
Medical Coding
0.688
0.702
0.715
0.740
Report Generation
Radiology Report
0.621
0.639
0.651
0.750
Patient Summary
0.598
0.615
0.628
0.719
Adverse Event
0.734
0.749
0.761
0.853
Literature Mining
0.667
0.682
0.694
0.780
Research Tasks
Gene Relation
0.578
0.594
0.608
0.788
Clinical Trial
0.645
0.661
0.673
0.782
Pathology Analysis
0.712
0.728
0.741
0.865
Safety Compliance
0.801
0.815
0.827
0.844
Overall Performance Summary
BioMedLM demonstrates state-of-the-art performance across all biomedical benchmark categories, with particularly notable results in clinical entity recognition and document analysis tasks.
3. Clinical API & Demo Platform
We offer a clinical demo interface and API for healthcare researchers to interact with BioMedLM. Please visit our secure portal for HIPAA-compliant access.
4. How to Run Locally
Please refer to our code repository for information about deploying BioMedLM in clinical environments.
Compared to previous versions, the usage recommendations for BioMedLM have the following changes:
Medical domain system prompts are recommended.
Clinical context window has been expanded to 8192 tokens.
The model architecture of BioMedLM-Base is optimized for clinical document processing, with specialized attention mechanisms for medical entity relationships.
System Prompt
We recommend using the following system prompt for clinical applications:
You are BioMedLM, a specialized biomedical AI assistant trained on medical literature and clinical documentation.
Current context: {clinical_setting}
For example,
You are BioMedLM, a specialized biomedical AI assistant trained on medical literature and clinical documentation.
Current context: Outpatient clinical notes review.
Temperature
We recommend setting the temperature parameter $T_{model}$ to 0.3 for clinical applications to ensure factual accuracy.
Prompts for Clinical Document Processing
For clinical document analysis, please follow the template:
For literature search enhanced generation, we recommend the following template:
search_clinical_template = \
'''# The following are relevant medical literature findings:
{pubmed_results}
In the search results provided, each finding is formatted as [source X begin]...[source X end]. Please cite sources appropriately using [citation:X] format. Ensure medical accuracy and evidence-based responses.
When responding:
- Prioritize peer-reviewed sources
- Note any conflicting findings
- Include confidence levels where appropriate
- Flag any potential safety concerns
# Clinical query:
{query}'''
5. License
This code repository is licensed under the Apache 2.0 License. The use of BioMedLM models requires compliance with healthcare regulations including HIPAA where applicable.
6. Contact
If you have any questions, please raise an issue on our GitHub repository or contact us at research@biomedlm.health.
