The Research History and Development Tendency of TCM Clinical Decision Support System

TCM Clinical Decision Support System (CDSS) is the combination of Chinese Medicine and artificial intelligence, which aimed at resolving the problem of TCM digitization and intelligence. This paper reviewed the research history of CDSS in nearly half-century, analyzed the problems and deficiencies of these researches, and put forward the new research methods and ideas for the future. With the development of new technologies, such as big data and cloud computing, CDSS will develop toward a human-centered, data-oriented, and problem-driven direction in the near future. Clinical practices and scientific research will be interacted to construct a new era of TCM intelligence based on TCM clinical practical data.