Text Knows What, Tables Know When: Clinical Timeline Reconstruction via Retrieval-Augmented Multimodal Alignment

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arXiv:2605.15168v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Clinical language models increasingly operate over electronic health records (EHRs), yet patient records are not stored as temporally grounded trajectories. Clinical notes describe symptoms, assessments, and disease progression, but often compress or narratively reorder events. Structured EHR rows provide timestamps for labs, medications, vitals, and procedures, but capture only part of the clinical story. We formulate clinical timeline r