Abstract: The development of emerging technologies such as the Internet, big data, and artificial intelligence is forcing the Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) higher education to change. The deep integration of information technology into TCM higher education is an inevitable choice for the modernization of TCM education. As smart education enters a new stage of development, how to achieve deep integration of information technology with TCM higher education in the TCM's special orientation is an urgent problem to be solved at present. Based on the perspective of smart education, starting from the connotation of the deep integration of information technology and TCM higher education, this paper analyzes the advantages and existing problems brought about by the deep integration of information technology and TCM higher education, and accordingly put forward the countermeasures on how to realize the deep integration in the hope of providing references for the integration practice of information technology and TCM higher education.

Key words: information technology, deep integration, smart education, Traditional Chinese Medicine, higher education