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Digital Twins in Healthcare for Citizens
[conference paper]
This document is a part of the following document:
Proceedings of the Weizenbaum Conference 2022: Practicing Sovereignty - Interventions for Open Digital Futures
Corporate Editor
Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society - The German Internet Institute
Abstract
Digital twins are gaining attention in healthcare, especially in fields like hospital management, simulating surgeries, or providing personalized health. As digital replicas based on users' data, digital twins can inform citizens in-depth about their lifestyle, medical data, and biomedical data. Hen... view more
Digital twins are gaining attention in healthcare, especially in fields like hospital management, simulating surgeries, or providing personalized health. As digital replicas based on users' data, digital twins can inform citizens in-depth about their lifestyle, medical data, and biomedical data. Hence, there is the assumption that digital twins could facilitate preventative healthcare at home, bringing healthcare closer to citizens, yet there are underexamined ethical concerns. In this paper, we explore the ethics of digital twins based on citizens' perspectives on digital twins in healthcare via recent literature and research. Although digital twins have great potential, citizens have concerns about surveillance, data ownership, data accuracy, and personal and collective agency.... view less
Keywords
health care delivery system; digitalization; monitoring; data protection; prophylaxis; health care; personalization; ethics
Classification
Technology Assessment
Medical Sociology
Free Keywords
digital healthcare; surveillance; digital twins
Collection Title
Proceedings of the Weizenbaum Conference 2022: Practicing Sovereignty - Interventions for Open Digital Futures
Editor
Herlo, Bianca; Irrgang, Daniel
Conference
4. Weizenbaum Conference "Practicing Sovereignty: Interventions for Open Digital Futures". Berlin, 2022
Document language
English
Publication Year
2023
Publisher
122-130
City
Berlin
Page/Pages
p. 122-130
ISSN
2510-7666
Status
Primary Publication; reviewed