An Analysis on the Utilisation of Health Information Technology to Support Clinical Operation of Chinese Medicine-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

An Analysis on the Utilisation of Health Information Technology to Support Clinical Operation of Chinese Medicine

Published:2016 Issue: Volume: Page:113-132
ISSN:2328-1243
Container-title:Advances in Healthcare Information Systems and Administration
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Author:

Han-Lin Catherine¹,Yang Angela Wei Hong²,Pittayachawan Siddhi²,Wickramasinghe Nilmini³

Affiliation:

1. Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia

2. RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia

3. Deakin University & Epworth HealthCare, Melbourne, Australia

Abstract

Chinese Medicine (CM) has become increasingly demanding globally. Recent World Health Organisation traditional and complementary medicine strategy of integrating CM to Western Medicine (WM) indicates that it is crucial that CM developments have strong literature, scientific, and evidence-based medical approval and support. To achieve this, there is a need to form a synthesis foundation or platform for future studies. This chapter serves to discover this synthesis that is suitable for CM by discussing the basics of inquiring and Knowledge Management (KM) systems. It suggests that CM should follow a combination of Hegelian and Kantian inquiring systems with the support of Singerian and Leibnizian inquiring systems and KM features. This proposed synthesis is one of the first, if not the first study to apply Churchman's inquiring systems into the context of CM and differentiate them from WM.

Publisher

IGI Global

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