Instrument engine

Every automation starts with a well-built instrument.

Evaluations, clinical decision support, ePRO and PROMs, intake, surveys — build them on the canvas, with AI, or over MCP. The instrument is the pathway that populations and automations run on, never the headline.

ModeThe pathway

PHQ-9 Patient Health Questionnaire
  1. Little interest or pleasure in doing things

    • Not at all
    • Several days
    • More than half the days
    • Nearly every day
  2. Feeling down, depressed, or hopeless

    • Not at all
    • Several days
    • More than half the days
    • Nearly every day
Score 14 Moderately severe

Build it any way you work

Lay out an instrument on the canvas — questions, branching logic, and scoring in a single view. Draft it with AI from a plain description. Or generate and update it programmatically over MCP. Whatever the method, the output is one portable instrument.

One umbrella term

An evaluation, an assessment, a survey, an intake form, a CDS prompt, an ePRO — they are all instruments here. Calling them one thing is what lets a single automation deliver any of them without special cases.

The how, not the what

The instrument engine gets its close-up last on purpose. It is deliberately the pathway: populations decide who, automation decides when and where, and the instrument is what reaches the patient. Build a good one, and the rest of the platform carries it across your population.