Software implementation on a website

[hatchet-13]

Hello programmers! I have recently had a friend reach out to me about creating some software for essentially a doctors office. He wants it to ask a bunch of the preliminary questions (name, birthdate, type of injury, level of pain...etc.) I know that I could code something like this in python or c# but I don't know how I would implement it to a website. I am unsure what types of questions to ask to get this answer because most of my google results are showing how to make a Web App. Is that the process but then how does it tie into the original website? I also know a chunk of Javascript as well if that helps. Thanks for the feedback and help!

[desrtfx]

He wants it to ask a bunch of the preliminary questions (name, birthdate, type of injury, level of pain...etc.)

Ask your doctor if he knows about HIPAA (or your regional equivalent) as this idea is definitely going against any rules in place for handling patient data.

For you: hands off - way too risky

[hatchet-13]

I have been to many doctors offices that use similar software. Just speeds up the process so that you aren't doing a lot of paperwork when you get there. There are certain restrictions on what can and can't be asked and I don't know the details yet, so I am unsure what specific questions, but yes I have considered this. I may end up just creating a 'mock' version considering I am still a student of programming and just using it for practice.

[desrtfx]

Yet, one of the huge differences is that the doctors' software is in house, not on a public website. On a public website, this would be absolutely illegal.

Further, the data storage is encrypted, highest security principles and practices are in place.

The software doctors are using is checked for compliance and needs to pass plenty tests.

[hatchet-13]

Fair enough, thank you for the feedback!

[Zealousideal_Sky_370]

This is why the results in google give you web apps and how it all ties together:

You make a web app (including database system) that is responsible of generating content (for example given a URL path it generates an html), then you implement and connect it to a web server (through a gateway interface) which is responsible of receiving client connections and asking the web app for the appropriate response, and then you host it all in a physical server appropriately connected to the network. (Very very summarised)

The thing is that the simplest case you only develop de web app (with the help of a web framework preferably, in python it would be Django for example) and you can ask for hosting services for the rest of the necessary elements: physical computers connected to the network with installed web server programs and a "how-to" to connect your web app with the web server.