How Health Universe Works

Health Universe provides a simple, secure, and streamlined way to build, deploy, and share healthcare applications.

Here’s a high-level overview of how it all fits together:

1. App Development

• Workspaces: Workspaces are collaborative environments where teams or individuals can develop and manage apps. In private workspaces, you can work solo and choose to make your apps public, while shared workspaces allow team members to collaborate and deploy apps together.

• Repositories: Each app is linked to a GitHub repository. Your source code (e.g., Streamlit or FastAPI app) lives there.

• Frameworks: Apps can be built using Streamlit (for fast UIs) or FastAPI (for APIs and backend services).

2. Deployment Pipeline

• Connecting GitHub: You connect your GitHub account to Health Universe. Health Universe automatically syncs your repositories.

• Deployment: When you're ready, you manually trigger a deployment from your workspace. Health Universe pulls your code, installs necessary packages, and builds your app environment automatically.

• Secret Management: Sensitive credentials (e.g., API keys) are handled through integrated secret management — not stored in your code.

3. App Hosting

• Visibility Settings: You can choose whether your app is:

  • Private (just for you or your team)

  • Public (shareable with the Health Universe community)

4. Integrations & Extensions

• LLM (Large Language Model) Connections: Health Universe makes it easy to integrate GPT models and other LLMs into your healthcare apps.

• External Data Sources: Apps can securely connect to FHIR servers, public health APIs, custom databases, and more.

• External Libraries: You can include external Python libraries to extend your app’s functionality, subject to platform security policies.

5. Testing & Redeploying

• Testing: Test your app directly within your workspace before public launch.

• Re-deployments:

  Changes pushed to GitHub do not automatically redeploy your app. After updating your code, you must manually trigger a redeployment in Health Universe to apply the latest changes.

Summary

Health Universe is purpose-built for healthcare developers, combining modern app development tools with healthcare-specific standards: 🔹 Secure and compliant app hosting 🔹 Seamless GitHub integration 🔹 Support for healthcare data standards 🔹 Rapid development with Streamlit or FastAPI 🔹 Easy extensions with external data or AI models