Multidimensional analysis for Traditional Chinese Medicine diagnosis and treatment on hepatitis diseases

Abstract

Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) has been widely used to treat various diseases like infectious diseases. Treatment Based on Syndrome Differentiation (TBSD) is the main principle in TCM clinical practice. So exploring the relationships between diagnoses and treatments from successful cases is important and valuable for better treating hepatitis diseases, which is a decision support problem based on data warehouse in nature. In this paper, using the multidimensional analysis techniques of BusinessObjects (BO) platform, we introduce a series of online analytical processing (OLAP) reports which cover different subjects of TCM on hepatitis diseases and a corresponding system used to manage the reports. It has been found that these OLAP reports are useful in experience sharing of making diagnoses and giving treatments on hepatitis diseases.