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Building Simple Web Apps in Healthcare

Free

As part of OpenClinTech, learn how to build a simple web application in healthcare: A BMI Calculator. A web-based application (aka web app) is used to calculate a BMI based on a user's input for height and weight.

About this course

Who it's for

Clinicians and anyone else in healthcare who has never written code and wants a first, low-stakes taste of building software. About 30 minutes of video.

What you'll learn

  • Writing and running Python in Google Colab, with nothing to install
  • Python basics: variables, printing, math operations and f-strings, comments and user input
  • Turning a clinical formula into code by writing a BMI calculator
  • Making code reusable with functions
  • Putting your code on GitHub
  • Deploying it as a live web app on Streamlit

By the end, you'll have a working BMI calculator on the web that anyone can use.

Prerequisites

None. No coding experience needed.

Syllabus
Course Objectives
Introduction to python
Developing your app
Deploying your app
Defining variables

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