Paving the Way Toward Connected Cardiac Digital Twins

From gene editing to 3D printed implants, healthcare has advanced rapidly and deliberately over the last few decades and shows no sign of slowing down with the emergence of digital twins. The one-size-fits-all approach to healthcare is no longer a viable solution, as it fails to recognize the significant differences between individual patients. This creates inefficiencies, cost overruns, and a drop in quality of care. Digital twins and other advanced technologies are poised to speed up patient recovery and improve quality of life for people around the world, with a significant paradigm shift and new technology tool kits collecting and creating data for customized treatment. 

With cardiovascular disease being the worldwide leading cause of death, many medical device, pharmaceutical, and research facilities are focusing their efforts on cardiac care. These efforts, coupled with technological breakthroughs in imaging, genomics, physiological monitoring, and therapeutic interventions, give researchers and clinicians access to more data about the heart than ever before. Using this data, they can create patient-specific computational modeling and simulation (CM&S) models of the cardiovascular system for a fast and straightforward solution that helps determine the ideal treatment for a specific patient.

Read the e-book to learn how digital twins can accelerate and optimize the cardiovascular medical device development process.