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Digital Twins in healthcare

cess capabilities, monitoring, and a constant study of optimization. OR departments with 10, 20, or even 30-plus rooms are complex ecosystems. They are cleaned and prepped within 30 minutes between surgical cases; and patient care for various services, including cardiology, orthopedics, etc., can require complex systems and equipment that aren’t always available for every room. Then there is the supply chain in the form of “carts” that bring in specifically sourced supplies and other equipment customized for the surgeon, the patient, and the type of procedure. All these things happen in rooms and behind closed doors with limited visibility.

If a digital twin monitored these complexities to continuously identify areas of breakdown or opportunities for optimization it would act like a virtual “air traffic controller” assisting OR leadership. After decades of managing the OR with manual processes, this could be the solution to achieving 80% utilization.

Twinning the Emergency Department

The ED can be described as the most vital organ for any hospital, where most hospitals see 80% or more of their admissions. A typical hospital-based ED sees more than 100 patients daily and is staffed with skilled clinicians, equipment, resources, and protocols to handle any and every possible scenario. Today, many intra-city EDs are constantly at overflow capacity, occasionally on divert (sending the non-critical patient population to another ED), boarding (admitted) patients who are “stuck,” and facing significant staffing issues. Imagine the possibilities a digital twin presents, in identifying blockages to patient flow, running “what-if” scenarios of where patient care could be transferred or temporarily lodged to alleviate the situation. The digital twin would allow testing of various scenarios before moving critically ill patients.

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These three digital twins use cases are the most common operational scenarios in a hospital. However, the applications are endless. There are plenty of individual functions and departments that could benefit from having an active digital twin, including outpatient functions, such as lab work, imaging, and interventional services and clinics. In another frontier yet to be crossed, digital twins could also be applied to studying what-if scenarios in care and clinical pathways to optimize a patient’s care while benefitting the bottom line. By combining views of patient data scattered across various medical applications, physicians and specialists could build digital twins to predict the outcomes of their care decisions. For example, providers could create a real-time medical dashboard providing patient-specific information to predict and improve clinical decision-making at the point of care. Providers could also test changes to operational activities on patient outcomes, such as care delivery programs, staffing allocation, appointment scheduling, bed facilities, and other decisions that affect a healthcare organization’s top and bottom lines. The benefits of digital twins for healthcare providers can be summarized as:

Enhanced decision-making and operations capabilities.

Testing interventions before costly infrastructural implementations. Minimized risk associated with changing a complex system. Identifying flow and blockages. Preparing for unusual catastrophic events.

Successfully leveraging digital twin technology often requires an experienced partner who understands the important role it can play in the future of healthcare. Through Discover, Guidehouse’s Innovation platform, we can experiment with digital twins and demonstrate the technology’s most creative potential for almost any sector or use case.

By Dr. Rod Fontecilla and Shashank Khandekar Source: guidehouse.com/insights

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The first hijabi Basketball Player

GILGIT: Two Pakistani women climbers stunned the mountaineering fraternity, and brought glory to their country, on Tuesday by scaling Lhotse, the world’s fourth highest peak at 8,516 metres in Nepal.

The feat by Naila Kiani and Nadia Azad comes on the heels of another achievement by them just two days ago when they summited Mount Everest, the highest peak. They are the first two Pakistani women climbers to have scaled the peak. In addition, Naila Kiani had earlier climbed

Nepal’s Annapurna peak this season. Her ascent of Mount Everest was the first by a non-Nepalese climber this season.

According to Karrar Haideri, general secretary of the Alpine Club of Pakistan, Ms Kiani has now become the first Pakistani woman to climb Lhotse as well as the country’s first woman to ascend six out of the 14 eightthousanders — peaks that are 8,000 metres above sea level. According to Imagine Nepal, Naila Kiani and Pasang Temba Sherpa, her Nepalese companion, completed the ascent

Bilqis Abdul-Qaadir is an American former collegiate basketball player. She was notable for playing basketball while wearing a hijab, a headscarf for Muslim women. Bilqis scored 3,070 points in her high school career, setting the all-time scoring record in Massachusetts. Bilqis Abdul-Qaadir broke records and barriers on her way to becoming the first Division I basketball player to play wearing hijab. When a controversial ruling ends her chances at playing professionally, she re-examines her faith and identity as an AfricanAmerican Muslim. Source: islamicity.org of Lhotse at 8.13am local time on Tuesday.

Naila has already climbed K2, Gasherbrum I and Gasherbrum II, all in Pakistan, before her recent achievements. A banker by profession, she lives in Dubai and is a mother to two daughters. She is an amateur boxer as well. Mingma G, a reputed climber from Nepal and the head of Imagine Nepal, congratulated Naila over the achievement. Yet another Pakistani feat

Meanwhile, Nadia Azad, a British citizen of Pakistan origin, also ascended Lhotse on Tuesday. She, too, had summited Mount Everest on Sunday.

Nadia has already ascended three peaks over 8,000 metres this season. The third peak conquered by her is Annapurna, on April 15. Nadia Azad intends to climb all five of Pakistan’s over 8,000-metre peaks this season. Source: dawn.com.news