Med-Tech Innovation March 12, 2024
Dr Visa Suomi, medical devices industry manager at MathWorks, discusses how digital twins can improve overall patient outcomes and enable safer medical devices.
Today there are numerous devices that monitor and collect data on our physiological state: wearable smart watches and fitness trackers, medical imaging devices, digital health apps, thermometers etc. Similarly, these devices themselves are producing large amounts of data about their current operational environment and condition. But how can we comprehend all these data and get meaningful insights from it?
One possibility is to create a digital twin – a virtual representation of a physical object or a system across its lifecycle. This means the digital twin entails both up-to-date and historical data about the state of its...