Challenges and opportunities for the Korean ginseng industry: A plot survey of market expansion among ginseng companies

摘要

Purpose: Currently in Hong Kong, health-related and medicaldata are usually created and kept by different healthcareproviders (or sometimes by individual patients) at differentlocations in different formats, e.g. at CMP’s clinics andherbalists shops. While some healthcare providersmay deployelectronic medical/patient record systems to store and retrievemedic al/patient data, such systems are generally not capableof data sharing at any large scale if at all. An eHR SharingSystem provides an information infrastructure for healthcareproviders in both the public and private healthcare sectors,with informed and express consent of the patient and properauthorisation for access to the System, to share the eHR theykeep on the patient with other healthcare providers and toretrieve the eHR of the patient shared by other healthcareproviders.Methods: During the first stage of the project, standardisationof clinical terms mainly focused on four domainsincluding diseases ( ), patterns ( ), acupoints ( ) andinterventions ( ).Results: The initial design and architecture of the ChineseMedicine Clinical Terminology Table (CMCTT) has beenestablished. Common terms in relation to diseases, acupoints,patterns and inventions were analysed and incorporated intothe CMCTT.Conclusion: Standardisation of CM information forms thebasis for accurate and efficient communication of electronicCM data. It facilitates uniform communications and reducescosts of technical integration. A proper management frameworkon standard development lifecycle will ensure theconcepts are properly created, described and organised whichwill enhance data accuracy and quality for health informationexchange. Both CM Terminology tables and the maintenanceprocess are essential to the development and daily operationof terminology standard to support data sharing to the eHR.