1. A monitoring system for communicating with at least one individual, the monitoring system comprising: a server configured to broadcast a script program to at least one remotely situated apparatus through at least one communication medium; a user interface configured to communicate with the server and adapted for (i) entering, authoring, selecting, or any combination thereof, a set of queries to be answered by the individual and (ii) entering, authoring, selecting, or any combination thereof, corresponding response choices for each of the queries; a script generator configured to generate the script program to be broadcast to the remotely situated apparatus, wherein the script program represents the queries and the response choices to the individual; and one or more databases accessible by the server for storing the script program and the responses received from the remotely situated apparatus.