[crazygringo]

Exactly. The PDF's work. They won't break. You can see all the information with your own eyes. You can send them by e-mail.

A wizard-type system hides most of the information from you, it might have bugs you aren't aware of, if you want to glance at an alternative path you can't, it's going to be locked into registered users, the system can go down.

I think much more intelligent computer systems are the future in health care, but I doubt the way to start is with yet another custom tool designed specifically for cancer guidelines and nothing else.

[ajsnigrutin]

> The PDF's work. They won't break.

Not just that, PDFs are one of the few formats, where i'm willing to bet my own money, that they'll still work in 10 or 20 years.

Even basic html has changed, layouts look different depending on many factors, and even the <blink>-ing doesn't work anymore.

[inferiorhuman]

Sure, PDF/A is an ISO-standardized subset of the larger PDF spec designed expressly for archival purposes. You could do that with HTML but then how would you get your crypto mining AI chat bot powered by WASM to work?

[seb1204]

A case specific PDF could be created and stored in the patient's electronic records. Such PDF could just highlight the decision three path.

[crabmusket]

> it's going to be locked into registered users, the system can go down

I didn't see anything in the screenshots presented that wouldn't be doable in a single HTML file containing the data, styles and scripts?

This is a countercultural idea but it fits so many use cases; it's a tragedy we don't do this more often. The two options are either PDF or SaaS.