Title :
Digital Health Ecosystems
Author :
Hadzic, M. ; Sidhu, Amardeep
Author_Institution :
DEBI Inst., Curtin Univ. of Technol., Bentley, WA
Abstract :
The aim of this tutorial is to: (1) clarify the concepts of digital ecosystem, digital species and digital environment through the analogy with the biological ecosystem (2) provide insight in the design of digital ecosystem using the five-steps digital ecosystem design methodology (3) discuss the role of the leading technologies within the digital ecosystems (4) illustrate the application and importance of the DES with the health community.
Keywords :
health care; biological ecosystem; digital environment; digital health ecosystem; digital species; health community; Bioinformatics; Biological system modeling; Biomedical engineering; Computer science; Data mining; Design methodology; Ecosystems; Information systems; Ontologies; Protein engineering;
Conference_Titel :
Digital Ecosystems and Technologies, 2008. DEST 2008. 2nd IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Phitsanulok
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1489-5
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1490-1
DOI :
10.1109/DEST.2008.4635233
