HDA-an Internet-enabled system for healthcare management

This paper presents Hypertension Decision Aide (HDA), a health care management system. HDA is designed to facilitate the management and treatment of chronic medical conditions such as hypertension by providing remote data reporting and monitoring, decision support tools and educational 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 the decision module, an expert system component that monitors the patient´s status, reports efficacy of treatment, and advises physicians on the appropriate modifications to the existing regimen