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Next Steps

You've built a working CDS service. Here's how to take it further.

What You've Accomplished

In this tutorial, you:

  • Set up a HealthChain development environment
  • Learned FHIR basics (Patient, Condition, MedicationStatement)
  • Built an NLP pipeline with Document containers
  • Created a CDS Hooks gateway service
  • Tested with the sandbox and synthetic data

What to Do Next

Improve the NLP

The NLP was hard coded in our example but HealthChain has simple pipeline integrations for spacy, huggingface and Langchain. Try to replace keyword matching with trained models.

Add FHIR Output

Convert extracted entities to FHIR resources:

from healthchain.pipeline.components import FHIRProblemListExtractor

pipeline.add_node(FHIRProblemListExtractor())

# Now doc.fhir.problem_list contains FHIR Condition resources

Learn More

Explore HealthChain's cookbook documentation, we have a variety of cookbooks that will let you build upon the basics from this tutorial.

Congratulations!

You've completed the ClinicalFlow tutorial. You now have the foundation to build production-ready healthcare AI applications with HealthChain.