Digital Twins, Internet of Things and Mobile Medicine: a Review of Current Platforms to Support Smart Healthcare

TL;DR

This paper reviews current digital twin, IoT, and mobile medicine platforms to evaluate their effectiveness in supporting smart healthcare solutions amid growing medical service demands.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive analysis of existing technologies and proposes a conceptual framework for a smart healthcare platform.

Findings

Digital twins and IoT improve patient monitoring and treatment.

Existing platforms vary in effectiveness and integration.

A new conceptual framework for smart healthcare is proposed.

Abstract

As the population grows, the need for a quality level of medical services grows correspondingly, so does the demand for information technology in medicine. The concept of "Smart Healthcare" offers many approaches aimed at solving the acute problems faced by modern healthcare. In this paper, we review the main problems of modern healthcare, analyze existing approaches and technologies in the areas of digital twins, the Internet of Things and mobile medicine, determine their effectiveness in solving the set problems, consider the technologies that are used to monitor and treat patients and propose the concept of the Smart Healthcare platform.