Pervasive and Connected Digital Twins - A Vision for Digital Health

Alessandro Ricci, Angelo Croatti, Sara Montagna

Healthcare is a main domain where digital twins are being explored and applied. Following a healthcare 4.0 perspective, in this paper we discuss a vision in which digital twins are pervasively used to digitalize any strategic assets of a health organization. We start from introducing a specific real-world case study - concerning trauma management – and then we broaden the discussion identifying some main points and challenges of a wider vision.

(keywords) digital twin; internet; hospitals; monitoring; real-time systems; interoperability; accidents

IEEE Internet Computing, 8 pages, 2021, IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos, CA, USA.
Pre-print.

@article{digitaltwins-ieeeic2021,
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
author = {Ricci, Alessandro and Croatti, Angelo and Montagna, Sara},
doi = {10.1109/MIC.2021.3052039},
issn = {1941-0131},
journal = {IEEE Internet Computing},
keywords = {digital twin;internet;hospitals;monitoring;real-time systems;interoperability;accidents},
note = {Pre-print},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
title = {Pervasive and Connected Digital Twins -- A Vision for Digital Health},
year = 2021}