Information System for Substance Abuse Practitioners

We will develop and commercialize an interactive multimedia information support system for substancpractitioners. This system will integrate client records, on-line assessment instruments, medical prreference materials, case studies, and other resources into a single personal-computer- based systefeasibility of developing a prototype of the system will be established. The key technical activitieselection of an appropriate system development environment; definition of architecture and componentintelligent methods of building a knowledge hierarchy and knowledge formatting; selection of searchtechniques; and definition of models for human- computer interface. Most of the system sub-componentthe market; those that are not will be developed with the help of research findings to maximize effitechnological advances in software, hardware, high performance computing and telecommunications alloa cost-effective system. This work will provide the foundation for Phase II - development and testinproduct will have wide commercial application to health care, beyond the substance abuse subfield; malready been initiated.