Web interface for the Heart Disease Program

The task of making a large complex diagnostic program available to a broad audience of physicians has become more feasible with the ubiquitous accessibility of the client-server architecture of the World Wide Web. This paper describes the design and implementation of a Web interface for the Heart Disease Program (HDP). The client-server architecture imposes a number of requirements on the program. The graphical capabilities of the Web enable a number of enhancements to the program but also cause some limitations. Our initial experience with physicians using the HDP through the Web interface has been positive and we are now conducting an evaluation of the HDP using this form of access.