The HC-REMA project aims at providing different type of health care professionals with a set of toold for building decision support systems for resource management optimization and quality control of health care policies in selected area, such as intrumentation purchase, therapy assessment and trial and screening scheduling. HC-REMA will be designed in such a way to be integrated into a pre-existing (if any) distributed Healthcare Information System.

The HC-REMA tools will shoe these characteristics:

1. They will support "dynamic" economic evaluation, i.e. decision-support models will be able to "learn and adapt themselves" through the appropriate links to distributed databases.

2. They will support a model-based approach to the development of knowledge-intensive applications for economic evaluation: generic problem solving models and ontologies for economic evaluation will be operationalised by instantiating them with domain-specific knowledge and, if needed, interfaced to additional, application-specific software components.

3. They will support the development of multi-agent applications, enabling different classes of health professionals to share knowledge and produce economic evaluation collaboratively.

4. The will facilitate interpretation and transferring of the result of economic evaluation to different setting, being every developed model builded on top of a common ontology.