{"id":874,"date":"2020-02-12T10:08:33","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T10:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.braceorthopaedic.co.uk\/wp\/?p=874"},"modified":"2020-02-12T10:08:33","modified_gmt":"2020-02-12T10:08:33","slug":"will-the-clinician-move-from-the-treatment-room-to-a-5g-network-as-we-progress-to-treat-the-digital-twin-iiot-is-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.braceorthopaedic.co.uk\/wp\/?p=874","title":{"rendered":"Will the clinician move from the treatment room to a 5G network, as we progress to treat the digital twin? IIoT is here!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) has most definitely hit the medical devices industry and that also means Orthotics. If you have never heard of IIoT I suggest you look up a definition and no, this isn’t something from a Black Mirror storyboard. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A small part of this will be computational twins, which have existed for decades with companies like Dassault Syst\u00e8mes, or others you may have heard of like NASA. What started with aircraft engines, is now heavily underway with organic matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A digital twin is a computer program that takes real-world data about a physical object or system as inputs and produces an output of predications or simulations of how that physical object or system will be affected by those inputs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The leap from R&D into real world cloud applications is gaining huge momentum, with several companies now completing Series A staging.\u00a0 As we become more plugged in and naively use various mediums to track personalised health biomarkers, the future is either rather depressing or utopian, depending on which side of the huge ethical AI fence you sit. This data will correlate directly with your projected death date, which in turn correlates to your pension, insurances, healthcare provision and so you\u2019ll easily comprehend how AI, 5G, wearables and biomarkers will shape the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The release of virtual human body twins in a platform; brings\ntogether biosciences and engineering, enabling a stakeholder to project the\ndata for an object into a complete living virtual model that can be fully\nconfigured and simulated. This is potentially ground breaking to the med tech\nindustry, researchers, clinicians and even patients who can visualise, test,\nunderstand and predict the unseen.  From\npharma with disease, surgical outcomes and even the medical device industry, as\nthese Orthoses transition to wearables.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Companies like Computational Life, a digital avatar platform,\nare principally engaged in cardiac research and development of medical devices\nin pre\/post clinical phases. They have now pioneered what is likely to be the\nfuture, by converting their virtual models into an exact replica of the patient,\nby overlaying actual MRI scans of patients over their model, allowing the\ndigital twin to possess all of the vascular features of the patients, to then\ntrack blood flow and organ response.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The above will be an absolute must in order to understand the\neffect of medical devices on the whole body. A chief complaint of many\nclinicians and certainly in Orthotics, is that no matter how good AM\nmanufacturers are with scanning and AI, it can never replace the ability of the\nclinician to assess and feel the proprioceptive qualities of soft tissue and\nskeletal relationships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other highly beneficial\noutcomes to the above would be diminishing the need for animal testing and\npushing the boundaries of utilising several hypotheses at once whilst analysing\nscenarios, which can be extremely difficult to test in a person.  From simulating environmental extremes of\naltitude or temperature, or from just running \u2018What if\u2019 calculations. You can\nprobably get away with a few prescription alterations, but certainly not\nseveral due to the demand clinically and also from the client stand point as\ntrust and confidence wanes, as by the 10th iteration of the device you would\nhave to question if you the clinician knew what the hell you were doing!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Is the future of Orthotic prescription in these cloud-based\nplatforms pairing the digital twin with a digital version of the target Orthoses?\nI suppose it will be subject to bandwidth and processing (hello 5G).  In reality however real-time tracking of\nindividuals\u2019 biomarkers, activity and the performance of any Orthotic device\nfeels imminent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I for one am looking forward to being able to use this tech in order to see the invisible; the interaction of orthoses with client, but in all of this we must not lose sight of the fact that it must be for the \u2018common good<\/strong>\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

#IIoT #orthotics #digitaltwin #biosciences #AI #orthoses #biomarkers <\/p>\n\"linkedin\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a> Share this with a friend or colleague<\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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