ArchEHR-QA: BioNLP at ACL 2025 Shared Task on Grounded Electronic Health Record Question Answering

Responding to patients' medical inbox messages through patient portals is increasingly a contributor to clinician burden. To this end, automatically generating answers to questions from patients considering their medical records is important. The overarching goal of the ArchEHR-QA 2025 shared task is to develop automated responses to patients' questions by generating answers that are grounded in key clinical evidence from their electronic health records (EHRs). The proposed dataset, ArchEHR-QA, comprises hand-curated, realistic patient questions (reflective of patient portal messages), relevant focus areas identified within these questions (as determined by a clinician), corresponding clinician-rewritten versions (crafted to aid in formulating responses), and note excerpts providing essential clinical context. The task is to construct coherent answers to input questions that must be grounded in the provided clinical note excerpts.