Build Medical Software / Course 2
From Evidence to Software
Turn one clinical protocol into explicit, testable application logic while preserving evidence limits, provenance, and the physician checkpoint.
intermediate 38 minutes 5 lessons
- Who this is for
- Physicians ready to build applications for clinical or operational use.
- Course outcome
- Take a bounded clinical need from workaround to tested software with an explicit deployment boundary.
Evidence does not become software in one step. It passes through interpretation, protocol design, logic extraction, implementation, testing, and clinical review.
This course makes that translation visible. The capstone is one working clinical application with its sources, boundaries, tests, and physician checkpoint preserved beside the code.
Course Outcomes
What you will learn
- Create an evidence card that preserves population, effect size, limitations, and review dates.
- Decompose a clinical protocol into inputs, outputs, exceptions, sources, and judgment points.
- Translate protocol prose into an inspectable logic sheet with explicit failure states.
- Build and test a clinical engine separately from its interface.
- Apply the physician checkpoint and three-patient test before clinical use.
Before You Begin
Prerequisites
- Basic familiarity with version control, structured data, and software testing.
- A bounded clinical protocol or guideline section suitable for translation.
Ordered Syllabus
Complete the lessons in sequence.
Each article remains at its original URL. Its position here supplies the learning context.
- 01 Evidence Is Not Yet a Clinical Instruction Preserve population, effect size, uncertainty, and evidence freshness before translating a recommendation. Distinguish population evidence from an individual clinical decision. Read lesson
- 02 A Protocol Is a Memory System, Not a Patient Map the protocol's inputs, outputs, exceptions, provenance, applicability boundary, and judgment points. Define the applicability boundary of a clinical protocol. Read lesson
- 03 Make the Clinical Logic Visible Before You Code Convert protocol prose into typed inputs, branches, thresholds, outputs, exceptions, and failure states. Build a logic sheet that another clinician can audit without reading code. Read lesson
- 04 Build the Clinical Engine Before the Interface Implement, test, and version clinical logic independently from the interface that collects and displays it. Separate a clinical engine from presentation and interaction code. Read lesson
- 05 The Last Step Is Not Software. It Is Judgment. Apply the physician checkpoint, test protocol boundaries, and return the encoded recommendation to shared decision-making. Apply the five-question physician checkpoint to a software recommendation. Read lesson