ArticleFrontiers in genetics2018
Digital Twins in Health Care: Ethical Implications of an Emerging Engineering Paradigm.
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162 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Technologies, Clinical Applications, and Implementation Barriers of Digital Twins in Precision Cardiology: Systematic Review.JMIR cardio · 2026Pooled it
- Digital Twins and Health Care: an Umbrella Review.Journal of medical systems · 2025Pooled it
- Human-Centric Digital Twins in Industry: A Comprehensive Review of Enabling Technologies and Implementation Strategies.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Pooled it
- From promise to practice: digital health through the lens of neonatal care.Lancet regional health. Americas · 2026Review
- A data-driven digital twin of emergency department flow to quantify congestion dynamics and test operational resilience.Internal and emergency medicine · 2026Article
- Precision Prevention for Health: The Global Alliance Framework for the Promotion of Physical Activity.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2026Article
- Digital twin for neurological conditions: a systematic scoping review.Biomedical engineering letters · 2026Review
- Neurofilament Light Chain (NfL) in Neurodegenerative Diseases: Biological and Clinical Significance, Multi-Omics Integration, and AI-Driven Biomarker Modeling for Precision Therapy.Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Digital twin-enabled robotic surgery: a bibliometric and knowledge-mapping analysis from patient-specific simulation to autonomy and clinical translation.Journal of robotic surgery · 2026Review
- Portable Sensing Systems in Biological and Chemical Analyses: A Review of Sensor Technologies, Miniaturized Platforms, Data Processing, and Field Applications.Micromachines · 2026Review
- A One Health digital twin framework for leprosy: linking host, pathogen, and population dynamics.Wiener medizinische Wochenschrift (1946) · 2026Article
- Enhancing the resilience of remote patient monitoring and hospital-at-home systems: a digital-twin-based framework.npj health systems · 2026Review
- Digital Twin Applications in Diabetes Management: Scoping Review.JMIR diabetes · 2026Review
- Future-Making From Afar: Digital Twins in Medicine.Sociology of health & illness · 2026Article
- Digitizing Dignity: Analyzing Digital Twins Through the Lens of Multidimensional Human Dignity.Bioethics · 2026Article
- [Digital twins in uro-oncology].Urologie (Heidelberg, Germany) · 2026Review
- A decade of innovation in healthcare: Automation, bio-printing and digital twin technologies for personalized therapies.International journal of pharmaceutics: X · 2026Review
- Digital Twin models to address long-term treatment toxicities in children and young adults with cancer.NPJ digital medicine · 2026Review
- A unified digital twin framework for predicting therapeutic response to central nervous system infections by pathogenic free-living amoebae.Parasitology research · 2026Review
- Next-generation digital twin model with unobtrusive RF multi-sensing for AI-based human monitoring.Scientific reports · 2026Article
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Abstract
Personalized medicine uses fine grained information on individual persons, to pinpoint deviations from the normal. 'Digital Twins' in engineering provide a conceptual framework to analyze these emerging data-driven health care practices, as well as their conceptual and ethical implications for therapy, preventative care and human enhancement. Digital Twins stand for a specific engineering paradigm, where individual physical artifacts are paired with digital models that dynamically reflects the status of those artifacts. When applied to persons, Digital Twins are an emerging technology that builds on
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