1. An interactive television system configured to allow monitoring of at least one individual, the interactive television system comprising: a communication interface for establishing a communication link between the interactive television system and a server remotely situated from the interactive television system through at least one communication medium; a display for presenting (i) one or more queries related to a physiological condition to be answered by the individual and one or more predefined response choices corresponding to the one or more queries provided by a script program received from said server, wherein said script program includes (a) general information, (b) information specific to said individual, and (c) a message corresponding to said individual from a health care professional associated with said individual and (ii) entertainment or advertisement content received from the server through the at least one communication medium, wherein said one or more queries, said one or more predefined response choices, and said message from said script program are displayed along with said entertainment or advertisement content received from said server; a user interface for receiving responses to the one or more queries selected from said one or more predefined response choices by the at least one individual; a processing unit connected to the communication interface, the display and the user interface, wherein the processing unit comprises a non-transitory computer readable medium initialized with a unique identification code for the at least one individual by the healthcare professional prior to the at least one individual receiving the processor unit and the processor unit is configured to execute the script program to (i) present the one or more queries and the one or more predefined response choices on the display, (ii) receive the responses from the user interface, and (iii) transmit the responses to the server through the at least one communication medium, wherein said processor unit is further configured to send said unique identification code for the at least one individual to said server in order to receive said script program and said script program includes a program identifier received from said server by said processing unit and said program identifier (a) is transmitted back to said server with said responses and (b) causes said server to associate said responses with said script program sent by said server to said processing unit; and a device interface connected to the processing unit and configured for receiving measurements from at least one monitoring device, wherein the at least one monitoring device is adapted for producing measurements of the physiological condition of the at least one individual.