Mission and Goal

IJOP aims to build a conducive environment for collaborative practice of Chinese Medicine (CM) and Western Medicine (WM). After the 2015 program, we have started the 2nd phase IJOP, again supported and funded by the Innovation and Technology Commission. We endeavor to create CM-WM collaborative platform, allowing CM practitioners and WM doctors to exchange knowledge on chosen diseases and subsequently generate concrete ideas and recommendations.

IJOP has been given the task to bring various missions into reality. There is a crucial need to promote a better recognition of disease problems, which pave the way to enhancing collaboration between practitioners in CM and WM, facilitating the gradual transformation to a new culture in practice, as well as renewing understanding on collaborative approaches to disease problems.

​Whole-heartedly, IJOP has been working to enhance warm collaborative channels between WM doctors and CM practitioners. IJOP has been forming a model for collaborative program, making collaborative framework and reducing the CM-WM language barrier with biological terms, while advocating for enhancing drug-herb interaction database and establishing a gearing body by the Government or institutional body to guide and collate CM-WM collaborative work.

The IJOP-2 Premise
Disease Management Information Network Premise

1. Promoting a better recognition of disease problems in healthcare
2. To facilitate CM and WM with a managed repertoire of valuable knowledge and views on three Disease Groups (post-stroke management, eczema and breast cancer)
3. Promoting understanding on collaborative approaches to disease problems
   
4. Gathering good evidence-based clinical information through systematic reviews (SR) from leading academic institutions (HKU, CUHK and HKBU)
5. Gathering views from CM and WM practitioners focus groups. Discussing with Disease Experts on existing evidence-based information
6. Interviewing with Disease Experts to clarify gaps and demands in practice
7. Drafting the Strategic Clinical Framework of each disease for CM-WM collaboration
8. Putting forth the Framework for feedback from community clinicians and restructuring the Framework for use
9. Bringing forth warm, friendly and interactive collaborative channels for CM and WM via an interactive multi-media platform.

In short, IJOP 2 – Disease Management Information Network uses opening warm collaborative channels, such as interactive net-casting programmes, to facilitate CM and WM practitioners’ initiatives for sharing, communicating and collaborating ideas and innovation, in a platform backed by experts' understanding and a managed repertoire of valuable knowledge on diseases including post-stroke management, eczema and breast cancer.  Multiple means such as seminars, videos, blogs, images, webinars and social platforms on collaborative approaches for disease problems through interviews and elaborations from expert practitioners and academic leaders should promote better mutual understanding.

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