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What is the Potential for Digital Twins in Healthcare?

HIT Consultant

Kaiser Permanente uses digital twins through a system that improves patient flow within a hospital. It achieves this by combining structured and unstructured data to build a more complete view of each patient to anticipate what their needs will be at the hospital. David Talby, Ph.D.,

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The Future of Digital Transformation in Hospitals

HIT Consultant

Despite advances in data interoperability, such as the adoption of FHIR APIs and increasing leverage of Common Data Models (CDMs), the hospital IT world is still highly fragmented, and even the advent of Cloud Compute has not drastically reduced that fragmentation.