# pyhealth

Builds and validates PyHealth pipelines for clinical data: EHR, signals, imaging, medical codes. Useful when modelling mortality, readmission or length of stay.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 1900 installs · ★ 54652
- Author: K-Dense-AI
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/pyhealth/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-19
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/pyhealth

## What it does

The skill walks through PyHealth's `Dataset -> Task -> Model -> Trainer -> Metrics` chain on version 2.0.2. The 1.x and 2.x interfaces do not mix, so the agent starts by checking the installed version and the dataset configuration before writing any code.

It lays out the order of work: confirm task semantics and which tables are required, build supervised samples with `base.set_task(task)`, partition by patient, pick a model whose arguments match the schema, and run a single batch before training. Metrics go into `Trainer` explicitly, and the monitor has to be one of the returned keys or the run fails. A starter script at `assets/starter_pipeline.py` trains on invented records; it proves the code runs, nothing about clinical performance.

You need Python 3.12 or 3.13 with PyHealth 2.0.2 and Torch 2.7.1, plus network access for installation and public datasets. Restricted clinical datasets need authorized local access. One thing to watch: `split_by_patient(..., seed=42)` is a random split, not chronological and not stratified, so a class can be missing from a partition.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills --skill pyhealth -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/pyhealth/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/pyhealth/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills --skill pyhealth -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/pyhealth/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills --skill pyhealth -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/pyhealth/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills pyhealth
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/pyhealth/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills --skill pyhealth -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills --path skills/pyhealth
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/pyhealth/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills --skill pyhealth -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/pyhealth/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- load MIMIC-III or MIMIC-IV into a training set
- check MortalityPredictionMIMIC3 label semantics before training
- partition by patient and inspect overlap and class counts
- map ICD, ATC, NDC and RxNorm codes
- save and restore the best Trainer checkpoint

## Example prompts
- Build a PyHealth pipeline on MIMIC-III with the MortalityPredictionMIMIC3 task and split by patient
- Check which tables this task needs and whether Transformer fits the schema
- Run `assets/starter_pipeline.py` with `--demo --epochs 1` and show me the metrics

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: pyhealth
description: Builds and validates PyHealth clinical machine-learning pipelines for EHR, signals, imaging, and medical codes. Use for PyHealth dataset loading, MIMIC-III/IV, eICU or OMOP prediction tasks, patient-level evaluation, mortality/readmission/length-of-stay modeling, medication recommendation, sleep staging, Trainer checkpoints, and ICD/ATC/NDC/RxNorm mapping.
compatibility: Requires Python 3.12 or 3.13 and PyHealth 2.0.2 (Torch 2.7.1). Network access is needed for installation, public datasets and uncached medical-code resources. Restricted clinical datasets require authorized local access.
metadata:
  version: "1.3"
  skill-author: K-Dense Inc.
  last-reviewed: "2026-09-30"
---

# PyHealth

Targets **PyHealth 2.0.2**, verified against its released wheel, current official
documentation, and CPU execution on Python 3.12/Torch 2.7.1. PyHealth's pipeline is
`Dataset -> Task -> Model -> Trainer -> Metrics`; its 1.x and 2.x interfaces differ.
Do not combine legacy `Visit` examples with the 2.x event/processor API.

## When to use

Use for clinical prediction with PyHealth, including EHR sequences, physiological
signals, imaging tasks, or medical-code lookup. Establish the cohort, prediction
time, observation window, outcome horizon, and unit of evaluation before modeling.
For general tabular learning without a PyHealth dataset/task, this skill is optional.

## Install and smoke-test

```bash
uv run --no-project --isolated --python 3.12 --with pyhealth==2.0.2 python assets/starter_pipeline.py --demo --epochs 1
```

Run that command from the skill directory, or use the absolute path to the asset.
It trains on invented in-memory records and exercises patient splitting, metrics,
and best-checkpoint restoration. It provides no evidence of clinical performance.
See [installation](references/installation.md) for project setup and device options.

## Workflow

1. **Inspect the installed version and dataset configuration.** Both MIMIC-III and
   MIMIC-IV use lowercase table selectors in 2.0.2. MIMIC-III files remain uppercase.
2. **Check task semantics and required tables.** `MortalityPredictionMIMIC3` predicts
   death in the *next admission*, excludes the last admission, and requires diagnoses,
   procedures and prescriptions in the current admission. It is not a current-stay
   early-warning model. Missing/invalid next-admission mortality flags are assigned
   zero upstream; audit this before using real data.
3. **Create supervised samples.** `base.set_task(task)` returns a processed dataset
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