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MedCase-Structured: A Text-to-FHIR Dataset for Benchmarking Diagnostic Reasoning in Clinically Realistic EHR Settings

Large language models (LLMs) show promise for clinical reasoning and decision support, but evaluation in structured, electronic health record-congruent settings remains limited.

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Large language models (LLMs) show promise for clinical reasoning and decision support, but evaluation in structured, electronic health record-congruent settings remains limited. Existing benchmarks often rely on static datasets or unstructured inputs that do not reflect the interoperable data formats used in clinical systems. We introduce a reusable pipeline for generating terminology-grounded HL7 FHIR R4 bundles from unstructured text, enabling controllable evaluation of clinical decision support systems over structured inputs. The pipeline combines staged LLM generation with terminology-grounded validation and repair to eliminate hallucinated codes and enforce structural and semantic consistency. Applying this approach to MedCaseReasoning, we construct MedCase-Structured, a synthetic dataset of 1,732 FHIR bundles derived from clinician-authored diagnostic cases, producing complete, valid bundles for 97.1% of attempted cases. Evaluation on MedCase-Structured reveals consistently lower diagnostic accuracy for LLMs on structured FHIR inputs than with plain text, highlighting the importance of deployment-aligned benchmarking.