A Digital Twin Framework for Personalized Healthcare Management Services

Smart healthcare is undergoing a complete transformation due to the use of advanced information technologies such as IoT, big data analytics, cloud computing, and AI. These technologies are revolutionizing the traditional medical system. This revolution aims to improve healthcare management services (HMS) by making them more efficient, convenient, and tailored to individual needs. Despite advancements, these systems still face a number of challenges, particularly when it comes to assisting the elderly; for example, smart supervision and feedback, intelligent monitoring, and facilitating future medical services. Further, these systems cannot provide continuous personalized HMS to the elderly throughout their lives. A framework based on Digital Twin (DT) technology is introduced to address these issues. This framework is designed to be flexible and adaptable, allowing for exploring and resolving a wide range of the aforementioned challenges. DT emerges as a promising technology and an influential trend. It is believed that DT will revolutionize the paradigm of digital healthcare. DT is a virtual digital representation of a real-world entity or asset. It utilizes real-time transformed data that accurately reflects the current status of an entity. The proposed DT framework for smart healthcare enables various benefits such as real-time monitoring, early diagnoses, predicting panic situations, checking vital signs, providing precise medications, monitoring changes in the indoor environment, maintaining massive medical history records, and supporting effective PHM. Further, a case study of a complete cycle for real-time supervision is explained based on the detailed architectures.