Medical digital twins: From the patient to the ward

Despite living longer, people are  experiencing higher rates of acute and chronic illnesses, increasing the burden on healthcare systems.1 Shortages of hospital beds and staffing, along with limitations in manual patient monitoring, can lead to operational inefficiencies and increased costs.2 

To address these challenges, healthcare organizations are using data to dramatically shift patient care. At the patient level, electronic health records (EHRs),  information from disease registries, “-omics” data (such as genomics, biomics, etc.), and demographic information can be combined to create statistical models of a patient’s real-time and future health.3 This is what is referred to as a medical digital twin. 
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