Personal Digital Twin: A Close Look into the Present and a Step towards the Future of Personalised Healthcare Industry

Digital twins (DTs) play a vital role in revolutionising the healthcare industry, leading to more personalised, intelligent, and proactive healthcare. With the evolution of personalised healthcare, there is a significant need to represent a virtual replica for individuals to provide the right type o...

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Published in:Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) Switzerland), 2022-08, Vol.22 (15), p.5918
Main Authors: Sahal, Radhya, Alsamhi, Saeed H, Brown, Kenneth N
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Blockchain
Blood pressure
Cardiology
Coronaviruses
COVID-19
Customization
data analysis
Decision making
Delivery of Health Care
digital twin
Digital twins
Disease prevention
Empowerment
Forecasting
Health care industry
Health Care Sector
Heart
Humans
Medical research
Nutrition
Osteoporosis
personal digital twin
personalised healthcare
Precision medicine
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Summary:Digital twins (DTs) play a vital role in revolutionising the healthcare industry, leading to more personalised, intelligent, and proactive healthcare. With the evolution of personalised healthcare, there is a significant need to represent a virtual replica for individuals to provide the right type of care in the right way and at the right time. Therefore, in this paper, we surveyed the concept of a personal digital twin (PDT) as an enhanced version of the DT with actionable insight capabilities. In particular, PDT can bring value to patients by enabling more accurate decision making and proper treatment selection and optimisation. Then, we explored the progression of PDT as a revolutionary technology in healthcare research and industry. However, although several research works have been performed for smart healthcare using DT, PDT is still at an early stage. Consequently, we believe that this work can be a step towards smart personalised healthcare industry by guiding the design of industrial personalised healthcare systems. Accordingly, we introduced a reference framework that empowers smart personalised healthcare using PDTs by bringing together existing advanced technologies (i.e., DT, blockchain, and AI). Then, we described some selected use cases, including the mitigation of COVID-19 contagion, COVID-19 survivor follow-up care, personalised COVID-19 medicine, personalised osteoporosis prevention, personalised cancer survivor follow-up care, and personalised nutrition. Finally, we identified further challenges to pave the PDT paradigm toward the smart personalised healthcare industry.
ISSN:1424-8220
1424-8220
DOI:10.3390/s22155918