Hera-An Expert System for Preventive Care

We will continue development of Hera¿, a microcomputer- based expert system that takes a preventivehistory from a lay user and makes recommendations to the user about various preventive health activirecommendations, tailored to the user's history, are based on authoritative practice guidelines storbase. The user is strongly urged to discuss the recommendations with a physician or other trained hebefore acting on them. Hera's knowledge base is also capable of storing multimedia prevention- relatthe user can explore using hypertext links. This comprehensive functionality of the Hera system compnothing less than a 'prevention workstation.' Hera will be sold to consumers for use on home microco