Contribute¶

This handbook is open source. If you've found it useful, the best way to say thank you is to help make it better for the next clinician who finds it.

Improve the book¶

• Spotted a typo or a broken link? Open an issue or send a pull request. Every fix counts.
• Disagree with something I've written? Good. Open an issue and make the case. Strong opinions, held lightly.
• Have a chapter to add? Check the existing structure, open an issue to discuss, then send a PR. I'd rather have a rough draft from a working clinician than a polished chapter from nobody.

The source lives here: https://github.com/pacharanero/clinicians-who-code-the-opinionated-handbook

Contribute to the community¶

Writing code in healthcare is easier when you have people to ask. A few places worth being:

• Clinicians Who Code on Digital Health Networks — the main UK community.
• OpenHealthHub — https://openhealthhub.org
• The CwC (un)Conference — the annual gathering in York.

Contribute to open source healthcare software¶

If you want to go further than reading:

• Find a project on GitHub that solves a problem you recognise and send a PR.
• Publish the little scripts and tools you already write for your own work. Someone else is solving the same problem right now.
• Put a SAFETY.md in every clinical repo you touch.

The handbook exists because a few people gave their time to write and review it. If you can do the same for someone else's project, you're paying it forward.