A Conceptual Framework for Digital Twin in Healthcare: Evidence from a Systematic Meta-Review

IF 6.9 3区管理学 Q1 COMPUTER SCIENCE, INFORMATION SYSTEMS

Information Systems Frontiers Pub Date : 2024-09-12 DOI:10.1007/s10796-024-10536-4

Giulia Pellegrino, Massimiliano Gervasi, Mario Angelelli, Angelo Corallo

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Digital Twin (DT) technology monitors, simulates, optimizes, models, and predicts the behavior of physical entities. Healthcare is a significant domain where a DT can be functional for multiple purposes. However, these diverse uses of DTs need a clear understanding of both general and specific aspects that can affect their adoption and integration. This paper is a meta-review that leads to the development of a conceptual framework designed to support the high-level evaluation of DTs in healthcare. Using the PRISMA methodology, the meta-review synthesizes insights from 20 selected reviews out of 1,075 studies. Based on this comprehensive analysis, we extract the functional, technological, and operational aspects that characterize DTs in healthcare. Additionally, we examine the structural (e.g., hierarchical) relationships among these aspects to address the various complexity scales in digital health. The resulting framework can promote the effective design and implementation of DTs, offering a structured approach for their assessment.

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医疗保健领域数字双胞胎的概念框架：来自系统性元综述的证据

数字孪生（DT）技术可对物理实体的行为进行监控、模拟、优化、建模和预测。医疗保健是数字孪生技术可用于多种目的的重要领域。然而，DT 的这些不同用途需要清楚地了解可能影响其采用和集成的一般和具体方面。本文是一篇荟萃综述，旨在开发一个概念框架，支持对医疗保健领域的 DT 进行高层次评估。元综述采用 PRISMA 方法，从 1,075 项研究中精选出 20 项综述进行综合分析。在此综合分析的基础上，我们提取了医疗保健领域 DT 的功能、技术和操作方面的特征。此外，我们还研究了这些方面之间的结构关系（如层次关系），以应对数字医疗中的各种复杂性尺度。由此产生的框架可以促进数字技术的有效设计和实施，并为其评估提供结构化方法。

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Information Systems Frontiers 工程技术-计算机：理论方法

CiteScore

13.30

自引率

18.60%

发文量

127

审稿时长

9 months

期刊介绍： The interdisciplinary interfaces of Information Systems (IS) are fast emerging as defining areas of research and development in IS. These developments are largely due to the transformation of Information Technology (IT) towards networked worlds and its effects on global communications and economies. While these developments are shaping the way information is used in all forms of human enterprise, they are also setting the tone and pace of information systems of the future. The major advances in IT such as client/server systems, the Internet and the desktop/multimedia computing revolution, for example, have led to numerous important vistas of research and development with considerable practical impact and academic significance. While the industry seeks to develop high performance IS/IT solutions to a variety of contemporary information support needs, academia looks to extend the reach of IS technology into new application domains. Information Systems Frontiers (ISF) aims to provide a common forum of dissemination of frontline industrial developments of substantial academic value and pioneering academic research of significant practical impact.