Rule Editor for ARDEN Syntax Generation towards a more Effective Self-Management of Asthma Disease Patients

The Decision Support tool of the myAirCoach platform is presented in this work. MyAirCoach is a web-based platform for personalized management of asthma patients. The Decision Support tool is used from medical experts to generate knowledge-based rules for asthma patients. The tool is a web-based application that includes a simple-to-use rule editor for generating medical rules in Arden Syntax, which is an HL7 standard. The logic of the rules in formulated in disjunctive normal form. Using the this tool, medical experts can generate rules and specify the set of rules that are applicable for alerting each patient, thus creating a personalized decision support system for asthma patients.