HDA - An Internet-enabled system for healthcare management

This paper presents Hypertension Decision Aide (HDA), a health care management system. RDA is designed Co facilitate the management and treatment of chronic medical conditions such as hypertension by providing remote data reporting and monitoring, decision support tools, and education material. HDA helps improve the communication between physicians and patients by allowing remote reporting of up-to-date vital signs and symptoms by patients and remote accessing of the data by physicians. The focus of this paper is the design and implementation of Decision Module, an expert system component that monitors the patients' status, reports efficacy of treatment, and advises physicians of appropriate modifications to the existing regimen.