Accepting your Future Avatar: Leveraging Digital Twins for Transforming Healthcare

by  SMRITI KIRUBANANDAN A possibility to do better and be better by observing yourself (your twin) reacting to various feeds and gaining the ability to gain better care and improve research, seems like a super power. The concept of a Digital Twin is the ability to replicate a person, an object or a process derived from extracting various data points from internet of things (IOT) that are attached to the original object. One can view how the digital twin responds to various feeds and give us a deeper understanding on the possibilities and impact for the real person or object. Shifting this concept into healthcare, I am going to take this up a notch and propose, what if a person has an opportunity to accept their future avatar presented to them and it is reflected and implemented immediately? As per Research and Markets report  Up to 89% of all IoT platforms will include digital twins by 2025 Digital twinning will be a standard IoT feature by 2027 Nearly 36% of executives across a variety of industries understand the benefits of digital twinning, with about half of them planning to use it in their operations by 2028 Here are some of the ways a Digital Twin would play a role in making healthcare accurate, smart and reliable while greatly improving member experience:  Delivering the right Frequency of Care  In the United States, 400,000 hospital patients experience some form of preventable harm each year, accounting for a cost of over $20...
Source: The Health Care Blog - Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Tags: Health Tech Burnout Consumer Digital Twin SMRITI KIRUBANANDAN Source Type: blogs