Constructing a Traditional Chinese Medicine Data Warehouse Application

TL;DR

This paper presents a practical data warehousing model for Traditional Chinese Medicine to improve data management, support clinical research, and facilitate medical knowledge discovery amid increasing TCM data volume.

Contribution

It introduces a structured data warehousing approach tailored for TCM, addressing data quality and standardization challenges in clinical and research settings.

Findings

Enhanced data management for TCM clinical records

Improved support for research and knowledge discovery

Demonstrated practical application of data warehousing in TCM

Abstract

The explosive growth in the development of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) has resulted in the continued increase in clinical and research data. The lack of standardised terminology, flaws in data quality planning and management of TCM informatics are preventing clinical decision-making, drug discovery and education. This paper argues that the introduction of data warehousing technologies to enhance the effectiveness and durability in TCM is paramount. To showcase the role of data warehousing in the improvement of TCM, this paper presents a practical model for data warehousing with detailed explanation, which is based on the structured electronic records, for TCM clinical researches and medical knowledge discovery.