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?
Beyond basic 3D modeling, virtual twins are digital replicas that 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, therapies, and healthcare facilities by enabling manufacturers to simulate and refine products before physical production. In hospitals, virtual twins create digital models of the environment to enhance safety and security.
Virtualizing the development of new drugs or medical devices will bridge the gap between concept and reality.
Going Beyond Digital Twin with the Virtual Twin for Healthcare
A digital twin is a virtual representation of a physical object, while a virtual twin goes further by enabling advanced simulations and providing valuable insights. In healthcare, it generates a 3D model of a patient’s unique anatomy using medical data, offering a detailed view for personalized care decisions.
Since 2014, the Living Heart Project has pioneered the use of virtual twins to simulate human heart function. This initiative uses realistic 3D heart models and advanced simulations to develop treatments and devices. By replicating patient-specific conditions, it enables precise surgical planning, effective therapies, and advances in cardiology innovation.
Meet Emma Twin, the Virtual Twin for Dassault Systèmes
Her job: Simulate medical conditions to visualize, test, and predict treatments. It may sound like science fiction, but it's just science!
Emma Twin, a virtual patient initiative, assists healthcare professionals in exploring treatment options and predicting 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?
Leveraging virtual twin technology to transform patient care, accelerate product development, and optimize clinical trials.
Creating a Patient-Centric Healthcare Model
Improving the focus on patient care by integrating data and artificial intelligence to better understand 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, driving scientific progress
Virtualizing Clinical Trials
Accelerating the development of new medicines by transforming clinical trials with improved data management, evidence generation, and decentralized processes, benefiting patients and healthcare professionals
Meet your virtual twin and 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 3D anatomy of the brain and the heart.
How Are Virtual Twins Used in Healthcare and Life Sciences?
Virtual twin experiences unlock new possibilities in Life Sciences & Healthcare by helping us understand and represent the invisible. This drives change 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 initiatives like the Living Brain and Living Heart projects, used by researchers, device makers, and doctors to create accurate virtual models for simulating conditions and testing treatments.
A real-world example is the use of virtual twin technology at Hôpital Saint-Louis 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, improving air quality and reducing 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 virtual twin is a digital model of a real object or system that uses data and simulations to predict outcomes and optimize performance. In healthcare, it models human organs or systems to enhance diagnosis and treatment.
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 twin humans model human biology to study diseases and test treatments. They help researchers predict patient responses, speeding up drug discovery and improving 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 twin 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.
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