Digital Twinning - Transforming Healthcare, Episode 2, Part 1

This is Todd Ponzcky here, and today we're going to talk about digital twinning. What is digital twinning? A digital twin is a virtual representation that serves as the real-time digital counterpart of a physical object or process. The first practical definition of a digital twin originated from NASA in an attempt to improve physical model simulation of a spacecraft in 2010. The twinning is actually replicating an object. It involves multiple processes. The first one is visual process. You have to have a software to model an object that looks like similar in real life object. And then you have to feed the system with the data about that object. It uses a lot of technologies. We use machine learning, we use AI. You can train a digital twin to behave like you, but also you can take off all of the errors and things that you don't want in the digital twin. So you have control over the behavior of that digital twin. You have limitation in processing things in real world. You have physical limitations, but inside the computer and inside the virtual world, it's actually upgradable, extendable. The limitations we experience are real life is not there for digital twins. With the help of a digital twin, companies can test and validate a product before it even exists in the real world. If you provided a patient model with the data and trained that patient model with the parameters that exactly looks like the real world, it will give you similar results. Going forward, there will be a transition towards cheaper, more accessible, and easier to use digital twins, culminating in its democratization. We hope you enjoyed this series where we review technologies that we think may transform healthcare in the future. Download the Stay Curren app, follow us on social media, and subscribe on YouTube channel. And remember, knowledge should be free.