{
  "id": 18435916,
  "title": "How Deep is the Signal? Time-Context up to 30 Years for Colorectal Cancer Prediction in a Primary-Care EHR Model",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/05/how-deep-is-the-signal-time-context-up-to-30-years-for-colorectal",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-11-05T00:34:47.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "arXiv cs.AI",
    "slug": "arxiv-cs-ai",
    "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.07265v1"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "EHR foundation models read medical events within a fixed context window, and long context has so far been measured only in tokens. How far back in time a model must look to capture the earliest predictive signal is unknown. We introduce time-context, the calendar lookback window before the prediction point, and provide, to our knowledge, the first systematic evaluation of decade-scale…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}