TELEHEALTH’S GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM (T.G.I.S.) FOR THE KNOWLEDGE BASE MODULE OF THE NATIONAL TELEHEALTH CENTER OF THE PHILIPPINES

Abstract

The Telehealth’s Geographic Information System is an online website which uses Google Maps and specifically designed for the Knowledge base module of the National Telehealth Center of the Philippines. The TGIS is a system that serves as a hospital and doctor directory as well producing good imagery of statistical data. It allows all kinds of users to view records of all hospitals in the Philippines and all doctors that work in these hospitals. The system allows the registered user to use online searching of statistical data from different database through the use of Metas ES. They can view the statistical data retrieved from the Metas ES through map, graph and table representation which can help them in their decision making about what to do to a particular disease. Through the map they can visualize much better the scale of a certain disease or how fast and where the disease spread.