Virtual Twin Experiences for Life Sciences & Healthcare
Discover how virtual twin technology transforms patient care, research, and medical innovation.
What Is a Virtual Twin in Healthcare?
Virtual twins are digital replicas that go beyond basic 3D modeling: They can predict future behaviors, enabling more precise and personalized patient care. This technology is transforming healthcare by addressing challenges and driving innovation, offering tailored treatments and improving overall outcomes.
Virtual twins in healthcare accelerate improvement of medical devices and therapies by enabling manufacturers to simulate and refine products before physical production. In hospitals, virtual twins create digital models of the healthcare facilities, ensuring a safer and more secure environment for patients, staff and visitors.
Virtualizing the development of new drugs or medical devices will bridge the gap between concept and reality.
How Do Virtual Twins Go Beyond Digital Twins in Healthcare?
A digital twin is a virtual replica of a physical object, while a virtual twin goes further by integrating real-world data for advanced simulations. In healthcare, it uses medical data to model a patient’s unique anatomy, supporting personalized care decisions.
As the healthcare industry rapidly evolves, virtual twins enable more patient-centric and outcome-driven experiences by simulating responses to treatments. They help healthcare providers refine strategies, optimize processes, and improve care through advanced modeling and real-time insights.
Meet Emma Twin, the Virtual Twin for Dassault Systèmes
Emma Twin has a unique job at Dassault Systèmes: to personally simulate medical conditions to visualize, test and predict treatments for a variety of conditions that could impact the human body.
Emma Twin is a virtual patient initiative which demonstrates new approaches for healthcare professionals to explore treatment options and predict outcomes with precision. By integrating real patient data, Emma Twin enhances decision-making and supports the development of personalized, preventive healthcare solutions, driving more effective and tailored care.
Revolutionizing Healthcare with Virtual Twin Technology
Explore how virtual twins are revolutionizing medicine by advancing precision healthcare, driving research and improving health outcomes.
How is Virtual Twin Technology Addressing Life Sciences & Healthcare Industry Challenges?
Virtual twin technology is transforming patient care, accelerating product development and optimizing clinical trials.
Creating a Patient-Centric Healthcare Model
Improving the focus on patient care by integrating data and artificial intelligence leads to better understanding the human body, from DNA to entire systems
Sustainably Developing Innovative Products
Using advanced modeling and biorealistic simulations to safely design and test new medicines, therapies and medical devices before physical production drives scientific progress
Virtualizing Clinical Trials
Accelerating the development of new medicines by transforming clinical trials with improved data management, evidence generation and decentralized processes, benefits patients and healthcare professionals
Meet your virtual twin! Discover the Living Heart and Living Brain projects
Powerful knowledge about the human body results when we can visualize, test, understand and predict what cannot be seen, from the way drugs affect a disease to surgical outcomes before a patient is treated.
Participate in a virtual reality experience that highlights the power of more deeply understanding the 3D anatomy of the brain and the heart.
How Virtual Twins are Used in Practice: Real-World Examples in the Life Sciences and Healthcare Industry
Virtual twin experiences unlock new possibilities in Life Sciences & Healthcare by helping us understand and represent what's invisible. This drives deep changes in business processes, strategic planning, regulations and technology, leading to more patient-centric, outcome-focused care. It transforms how therapies are discovered, developed, produced and used.
Explore how initiatives like the Living Brain and Living Heart projects, are used by researchers, device makers and doctors to create accurate virtual models for simulating medical conditions and testing treatments.
A real-world example is the use of virtual twin technology at Saint-Louis Hospital in Paris, where airflow simulations optimize hospital environments for greater safety and efficiency.
Using simulation to prevent virus spread in hospitals
Saint-Louis Hospital in Paris used Virtual Twin as a Service (VTaaS) to trace airborne pathogens in its dialysis unit and implement measures to protect vulnerable patients from infections.
By simulating airflow and pathogen spread, the hospital optimized ventilation to improve air quality and reduce infection risks, ensuring a safer environment for patients and staff.
Virtual Twins Across the Life Sciences & Healthcare Value Chain
Curious About Virtual Twins? Find Answers in Our FAQ.
A digital twin observes, while a virtual twin "interacts and optimizes" in a continuous feedback loop. The Virtual Twin is the next evolution of Digital Twins, offering real-time simulation, decision-making enhancements and long-term sustainability benefits across industries.
Discover the key differences between virtual twins and digital twins and how they transform industries with real-time optimization and predictive insights.
Virtual twin technology creates digital replicas of patients' anatomy using medical data. This allows doctors to simulate and analyze treatment options, leading to more personalized and effective healthcare.
Virtual twins of humans model human biology to study diseases and test treatments. Researchers can predict patient responses, speed up drug discovery and improve medical devices.
Virtual twins simulate how diseases progress over time. This helps healthcare providers plan treatments and evaluate their effectiveness, improving management of chronic conditions.
Virtual twins simulate drug interactions with the human body, reducing the need for animal or human trials. This speeds up research and ensures safer, more effective treatments.
Virtual twins of humans offer detailed, personalized models based on individual anatomy, unlike traditional simulations which use generic models. This enables more accurate predictions and tailored treatments.
AI enhances virtual twins by analyzing large datasets from medical records and imaging. This improves model accuracy and predictive capabilities, making personalized healthcare more effective.
MEDIDATA, a Dassault Systèmes company, contributes to clinical trials by providing solutions that streamline the design, management and analysis of clinical research, leveraging AI, machine learning and cloud.
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