"Big data" application will bring "great value" to traditional Chinese Medicine

2013-12-26 source: today's era of science and Technology Daily is a big data era But is the idea and technology of big data suitable for traditional Chinese medicine? How will the research of big data affect the traditional Chinese medicine industry? In an interview with science and technology daily, Liu Baoyan, executive vice president of the Chinese Academy of traditional Chinese medicine, believed that big data would bring "great value" to the development of traditional Chinese medicine Liu Baoyan told reporters that the field of traditional Chinese medicine has typical big data characteristics: first, the amount of data is huge For example, in 2012, the outpatient volume of four hospitals of the Chinese Academy of traditional Chinese medicine reached 6.98 million, and the outpatient volume of Guang'anmen Hospital alone exceeded 10000 person times a day; there are nearly 60000 inpatients every year If the diagnosis and treatment process of these patients is all data-based, and the medical data generated by each visit is calculated by 10m, the amount of data generated each year will be as high as 70tb If the clinical data of the National Hospital of traditional Chinese medicine are gathered together, its scale can be imagined Second, the data type is complex In the hospital of traditional Chinese medicine, each patient not only needs to go through the individualized diagnosis and treatment of syndrome differentiation and treatment, but also through various physical and chemical tests to diagnose the disease and its prognosis Therefore, there are not only the information contained in the medical records, but also the biological information of biochemical examination, multiple images or pathological sections Collecting these huge and multi-category data and activating them through analysis and processing can produce unexpected value The application of "big data" in clinical and scientific research of traditional Chinese medicine will bring revolutionary changes to this field In Liu Baoyan's view, digital technology is the only way to promote the rapid development of traditional Chinese medicine, and the application of big data will bring "great value" to the development of traditional Chinese medicine Using digital technology to record a large number of TCM knowledge and information in TCM clinical diagnosis and treatment practice, and using these information to analyze the efficacy and empirical knowledge of TCM clinical diagnosis and treatment, is an important topic in the research and development of TCM modernization Liu Baoyan told reporters, In the past, traditional Chinese medicine mainly accumulated experience in clinical practice, recorded the clinical diagnosis and treatment process with paper medical records, sublimed its own perception, became its own academic views or thoughts, and then returned to clinical guiding practice, which "came from the clinical to the clinical" The development mode of TCM is a very long process, which takes the effect in practice as the test standard, which leads to the difficulties of traditional Chinese medicine inheritance, the slow growth of talents, the development can not meet the needs and so on "On the platform of TCM clinical scientific research information sharing system, the process of scientific research using big data is actually an integrated research process of clinical scientific research based on human and human-computer Among them, through the interaction with patients in clinical practice, and through the clinical scientific research information sharing system, the practice data, standardization, digitization, massive clinical data are put in the data warehouse with the theme of "syndrome treatment effect" closely related model, and the doctors' thinking Through inquiry and retrieval, statistical analysis and data mining, we can find the clinical experience of traditional Chinese medicine, reveal the laws of diagnosis and treatment, and evaluate the clinical efficacy, so as to generate new knowledge, and then guide clinical practice more effectively, so as to improve the clinical diagnosis and treatment of traditional Chinese Medicine, expand the scope of treatment, and improve the service ability and quality " "Big data technology will bring great changes and great convenience to the scientific research of traditional Chinese medicine," Liu said Once the rich clinical data of traditional Chinese medicine are collected, it will form a unique treasure house of traditional Chinese medicine resources in the world, and will have unparalleled advantages Using big data technology will form a research paradigm of "human centered, data-oriented, problem driven, intersection of medical practice and scientific computing"