Digital Twins Federation for Remote Medical Care of De-Hospitalized Patients
Alfio Lombardo, Carmelo Ricci · 2022 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops and other Affiliated Events (PerCom Workshops) · 2022
Governments are promoting digitalization also in the medical world to create a platform that virtualizes the doctor/patient relationship in order to minimize patients hospitalization and related costs without loosing information which usually characterizes the real interaction. A tool that is being consolidated to respond to these scenarios is that of Digital Twins. Although some pioneering research works have already proposed the DT of an human organ, the challenging target of designing the DT of a human patient as a whole, which allows to address successfully the de-hospitalization and remote treatment of the patient, is far from reality. To contribute to this goal in this paper we introduce the federation of DTs as a platform to virtualize the disease of a patient as a whole so that each of the human organs involved in the patient pathology cam be monitored/treated in relationship to the others.