WCA's unique repository of patient case studies

It is absolutely vital that you do not upload any information to WCA CaseHub that could be used to identify your patient. The type of information that must NOT be uploaded includes: name, address, email, phone number, etc., as well as photos that show faces or any characteristics that could be used to identify a person, e.g. tattoos. All such personal identifying information must be redacted from reports and images.

Here is how you should use patient photos in WCA CaseHub so you are not compromising your patients' privacy.
a) Do not use any photos that show faces or characteristics that identify a person, e.g. tattoos.
b) Crop photos as far as possible before uploading them so you only show the relevant area of the body.
c) If you have to use a full face photo, you must redact it BEFORE uploading to the system or inserting it into your documents. To redact a photo, edit the original image by placing one or more black boxes over the eyes, nose and cheeks as well as any other distinguishing features and saving the file as a PNG or JPG. Make the black boxes as large as possible. If in doubt, do not upload or use the image.
d) Always remember: patient anonymity takes priority over your right to use the image.

Your case studies are valuable and sensitive. With WCA CaseHub, access to your data is protected, giving you peace of mind as you document your journey in Chinese herbal medicine.

Our terms and conditions expressly require all case studies to be anonymised, i.e. scrubbed of all personally identifiable information linked to patients.

Yes, you can share case studies within the strictly controlled WCA community. WCA CaseHub is designed as a collaboration tool to aid learning and research.

No. WCA maintains strict control over how case studies are shared. If, in future, case studies are made available in any other context (e.g. research), the WCA will ensure that only relevant data is made available, and who has access.

Yes. We have a very easy to use query language you can use to help research cases.

In order to protect the quality and integrity of our data, we only allow suitably qualified practitioners and supervised WCA students to use WCA CaseHub. All applicants start by submitting their details on the platform's registration page. These applicants are placed in our waiting room pending approval by one of our supervisors.

WCA students and alumni as well as our teachers and partner practitioners do not have to pay to use WCA CaseHub.

Cases come onto WCA CaseHub from a variety of sources including: WCA student case studies, WCA teachers and our partner practitioners. All case studies are entered by, or supervised by, highly experienced CHM practitioners.

This feature will be coming to the platform very soon.