A web-gis based urgent medical rescue CSCW system for sars disease prevention

Abstract

To enable public collaborate with the urgent medical rescue organization, exchange information, participate in activities of prevention against the dangerous epidemic disease like SARS disease happened recently, and rescue patients in shortest time, this paper proposed a framework for the Web-GIS based urgent medical rescue CSCW for SARS disease prevention. The Web-GIS, CSCW, java and multimedia technologies were adopted to construct an integrated collaborative environment. A Web-GIS java applet was used as geometric graphical user interface in web, which could make the public share the geo-referenced epidemic disease information. The CSCW technologies were used to enable the public collaborate with the relevant hygiene department, and medical rescue center. An architecture based on J2EE was applied to the system for expanding the system to large scale. The system can provide an efficient means for performing SARS condition analysis, isolating the area of the developing disease, and controlling the spreading of epidemic disease within shortest time. The system functions and some key technological issues were investigated in the paper. The system has very important practical value for SARS epidemic disease prevention.