Physician-Developer Blog

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I am Chukwuma Onyeije, MD, FACOG. I practice Maternal-Fetal Medicine and build AI tools for physicians. This is where I document the work and make the case for doctors who code.

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Physician in white coat with ID badge at a desk late at night, laptop showing a Python code editor alongside printed clinical notes

Technology

Why Doctors Should Learn to Code

Not to become programmers. To become the kind of physician who can close the gap between a clinical insight and a working solution.

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I Built InboxDetox in Two Evenings — This Is What Disposable Software Looks Like

InboxDetox is an AI-powered email unsubscribe manager built in two evenings and deployed to Railway. It is on GitHub. Take it.

Mar 27, 2026 · 5 min read

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Physician at a desk at night reviewing telehealth billing codes on dual monitors

Clinical Informatics

Demystifying Digital Medicine Coding -- A Physician-Developer's Guide to Sustainable Telehealth Workflows

A practical breakdown of 2025 CPT telehealth codes, RPM billing thresholds, and the workflow engineering required to make digital medicine financially sustainable.

Mar 26, 2026 · 8 min read

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Pregnant woman sitting alone on a dark couch late at night, her face lit by the glow of her phone as she types a medical question into a chatbot

AI in Medicine Featured

Your Patients Are Already Using ChatGPT to Decide Whether to Call You

They are not asking it for fun. They are asking it because the triage line puts them on hold for 45 minutes. The threat is not the technology. The threat is the system that made the technology necessary.

Mar 24, 2026 · 10 min read

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Hospital IT conference room with vendor AI presentation on screen, physicians at the table, one with a code editor open

AI in Medicine

The EHR Vendor Wants You to Stay a Consultant

Physician passivity in health tech is not an accident. It is a business model. Understanding the structural incentives is the first step to building outside of them.

Mar 23, 2026 · 6 min read

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Dark terminal screen showing timestamped biometric log entries with the text LOGS BEFORE INTELLIGENCE centered in the foreground

Clinical + Code

Logs Before Intelligence: Why Data Discipline Must Precede AI Insight

Before you build any AI feature, you must first build the log. The principle every physician-developer needs to internalize before writing a single line of intelligence code.

Mar 23, 2026 · 8 min read

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The Author

Chukwuma Onyeije, MD, FACOG

Maternal-Fetal Medicine specialist at Atlanta Perinatal Associates. I build AI-powered clinical tools because physicians with domain expertise build better healthcare technology than external vendors ever will.

Founder of CodeCraftMD (AI medical documentation) and OpenMFM.org (open-source MFM education).

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Specialty

MFM / High-Risk OB

Credential

MD, FACOG

Project

CodeCraftMD