Channel 05

Building and Shipping

Testing, deployment, maintenance, and the transition from private workaround to shared infrastructure.

Controlled Topics

  • testing
  • deployment
  • clinical calculators
  • version control
  • infrastructure

Selected Articles

Begin with the load-bearing arguments.

These articles establish the channel. Publication order does not determine their importance.

A small clinical tool becoming the foundation of larger infrastructure, dark navy and cyan
Physician Development Featured

The Moment a Clinical Tool Becomes Infrastructure

A short introduction to a DoctorsWhoCode series on spreadsheets, tests, and retrieval as the basic discipline of physician-built clinical software.

· 7 min read
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Clinical calculator interface with glowing test checkpoints at critical boundary thresholds
Physician Development Featured

Why Your Clinical Calculator Needs Tests

A clinical calculator is not safer because it is written in code. It becomes safer when its expected behavior is explicit, checked, and protected from silent drift.

· 8 min read
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A clinical software project moving from a local laptop to live screens across browser and phone
Physician Development

Deployment: When Your Code Becomes Clinical Reality

An app on your laptop helps no one. Deployment is the step where physician-developer work finally becomes available to patients, colleagues, and clinics.

· 14 min read
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