Design for a digital twin in clinical patient care
Abstract Digital Twins hold great potential to personalize clinical patient care, provided the concept is translated to meet specific requirements emerging from established clinical workflows. We present a general and unspecialized Digital Twin design combining knowledge graphs and ensemble learning to reflect the entire patient’s clinical journey and assist clinicians in their decision-making. Such a design is predictive, modular, evolving, informed, interpretable and explainable, thus opening broad clinical applications.
Authors
- Magdalena Görtz
- Markus Hohenfellner (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3798-2039)
- Carlos Brandl
- Fabian Egersdörfer
- Anna-Katharina Nitschke
- Matthias Weidemüller
Institutions
- German Cancer Research Center (DE)
- Heidelberg University (DE)
- University Hospital Heidelberg (DE)
Publication Details
- Journal
- npj Health Systems
- Published
- 2026-02-02
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s44401-025-00060-1
- Primary Topic
- Digital Transformation in Industry
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
- Universität Heidelberg
- Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung