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Health Care / Behavioral Science

Overview

Rapid development of behavior change expert systems has been made possible by utilizing formal object design, and by implementing a component initialization strategy, that while general enough to be applicable across systems, is sufficiently robust, providing specific information for each variant.

The initial design continues to be refined as new ideas are incorporated into subsequent behavior change systems.  This allows earlier generations of expert systems to evolve, incorporating the new concepts.  Re-engineering is not an issue, simply because it is not necessary.

The software has been designed and developed to run as an embedded system with a well-defined interface.  The modality of the delivery system: batch, interactive, client-server or web, and whether the study is a multi-risk or single-risk system, has been made irrelevant by the data specification.

The need for post-collection data analysis has also been given great consideration.  Standardization is implemented at the expert system module level.  Therefore, the format of the data of common module subsections remains consistent, making life easier for the researcher.

 

Subject Areas (risks)	Organizations
Smoking	Johnson & Johnson
Nicotrol Patch	McNeill Consumer Products
Diet	Kaiser Permanente
Sun/UV Avoidance	LifeScan
Exercise	Public Management Associates (UK)
Stress	Behavioral Solutions
Alcohol	Nelson Communications
Cervical Cancer	University of California
Diabetes Multi-risk	Boston University
Glucose Monitoring
Mammography
Emotional Distress
Carbohydrate Monitoring
Hypertension