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According to Xinhua News Agency in Beijing on August 15, a reporter recently learned from the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine that my country will use 3 to 5 years to promote emerging digital technologies such as big data and artificial intelligence to gradually integrate into all links of the entire chain of inheritance, innovation and development of traditional Chinese medicine, promote the sharing, circulation and reuse of traditional Chinese medicine data, and initially realize the effective connection of data across the entire industry, the entire industrial chain, and the entire process of traditional Chinese medicine, and strive to create "digital traditional Chinese medicine."

Emerging digital technologies can provide strong support for the modernization of traditional Chinese medicine. In order to give full play to the multiplier effect of data elements and release the value of traditional Chinese medicine data, the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine and the National Bureau of Statistics recently jointly issued "Several Opinions on Promoting the Development of Digital Traditional Chinese Medicine", proposing 20 specific measures.

In terms of digital assistance to improve the service capabilities of traditional Chinese medicine, the document proposes to "encourage traditional Chinese medicine medical institutions to promote the digital transformation of business processes and create a digital traditional Chinese medicine service model that integrates prevention, treatment, rehabilitation, and personal health management" and "encourage the development of smart electronic medical records, smart pre-diagnosis and follow-up systems with traditional Chinese medicine characteristics to enhance the intelligent data collection capabilities of traditional Chinese medicine."

(People's Daily Overseas Edition)