<s>
EMRBots	B-Application
are	O
experimental	O
artificially	O
generated	O
electronic	B-Application
medical	I-Application
records	I-Application
(	O
EMRs	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
aim	O
of	O
EMRBots	B-Application
is	O
to	O
allow	O
non-commercial	O
entities	O
(	O
such	O
as	O
universities	O
)	O
to	O
use	O
the	O
artificial	O
patient	O
repositories	O
to	O
practice	O
statistical	O
and	O
machine-learning	O
algorithms	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
A	O
letter	O
published	O
in	O
Communications	O
of	O
the	O
ACM	O
emphasizes	O
the	O
importance	O
of	O
using	O
synthetic	O
medical	O
data	O
,	O
"	O
...	O
EMRBots	B-Application
can	O
generate	O
a	O
synthetic	O
patient	O
population	O
of	O
any	O
size	O
,	O
including	O
demographics	O
,	O
admissions	O
,	O
comorbidities	O
,	O
and	O
laboratory	O
values	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
March	O
2022	O
,	O
Ishani	O
Das	O
,	O
a	O
student	O
researcher	O
from	O
Cupertino	O
High	O
School	O
,	O
used	O
EMRBots	B-Application
to	O
develop	O
an	O
Artificial	O
Intelligence	O
based	O
Clinical	O
Decision	O
Support	O
Tool	O
which	O
is	O
available	O
via	O
the	O
open-source	O
community	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
April	O
2018	O
Bioinformatics	O
(	O
journal	O
)	O
published	O
a	O
study	O
that	O
relied	O
on	O
EMRBots	B-Application
data	O
to	O
create	O
a	O
new	O
R	O
package	O
denoted	O
as	O
"	O
comoRbidity	O
"	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Their	O
study	O
describes	O
a	O
novel	O
neural	O
network	O
that	O
performs	O
better	O
than	O
the	O
widely	O
used	O
long	B-Algorithm
short-term	I-Algorithm
memory	I-Algorithm
neural	O
network	O
developed	O
by	O
Sepp	O
Hochreiter	O
and	O
Jürgen	O
Schmidhuber	O
in	O
1997	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Researchers	O
from	O
Carnegie	O
Mellon	O
University	O
used	O
EMRBots	B-Application
data	O
at	O
the	O
CMU	O
HackAuton	O
hackathon	O
to	O
create	O
a	O
prediction	O
tool	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
EMRBots	B-Application
were	O
presented	O
at	O
HackPrinceton	O
2018	O
organized	O
by	O
Princeton	O
University	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
EMRBots	B-Application
were	O
presented	O
at	O
TreeHacks	O
2019	O
organized	O
by	O
Stanford	O
University	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
All	O
source	O
code	O
for	O
EMRBots	B-Application
is	O
available	O
in	O
Elsevier	O
's	O
Software	O
Impacts	O
GitHub	B-Application
site	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Northwell	O
Health	O
's	O
EMRBot	O
,	O
however	O
,	O
is	O
neither	O
related	O
to	O
Uri	O
Kartoun	O
's	O
website	O
(	O
registered	O
as	O
a	O
domain	O
name	O
in	O
April	O
2015	O
;	O
www.emrbots.org	O
)	O
nor	O
to	O
any	O
of	O
its	O
repositories	O
or	O
applications	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
"[EMRBots]	O
are	O
...	O
pregenerated	O
datasets	O
of	O
synthetic	O
EHR	O
with	O
an	O
insufficient	O
explanation	O
of	O
how	O
the	O
datasets	O
were	O
generated	O
.	O
</s>
