Digital Twins in Healthcare for Citizens

De Maeyer, Christel; Lee, Minha

Digital Twins in Healthcare for Citizens

dc.contributor.author	De Maeyer, Christel
dc.contributor.author	Lee, Minha
dc.date.accessioned	2023-08-29T12:09:27Z
dc.date.available	2023-08-29T12:09:27Z
dc.date.issued	2023
dc.description.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. 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.	en
dc.description.sponsorship	This work has been funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research of Germany (BMBF) (grant no.: 16DII111, 16DII112, 16DII113, 16DII114, 16DII115, 16DII116, 16DII117 – „Deutsches Internet-Institut“)
dc.identifier.citation	De Maeyer, C., & Lee, M. (2023). Digital Twins in Healthcare for Citizens. Proceedings of the Weizenbaum Conference 2022: Practicing Sovereignty, 122–130. https://doi.org/10.34669/WI.CP/4.12
dc.identifier.doi	10.34669/WI.CP/4.12
dc.identifier.eissn	2510-7666
dc.identifier.uri	https://www.weizenbaum-library.de/handle/id/64
dc.language.iso	eng
dc.publisher	Weizenbaum Institute
dc.relation.ispartof	https://doi.org/10.34669/WI.CP/4
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Weizenbaum Conference Proceedings
dc.rights	open access
dc.rights.uri	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject	Technology (Applied sciences)	en
dc.subject	Sociology & anthropology	en
dc.subject	Technology Assessment	en
dc.subject	Medical Sociology	en
dc.subject	health care delivery system	en
dc.subject	digitalization	en
dc.subject	monitoring	en
dc.subject	data protection	en
dc.subject	prophylaxis	en
dc.subject	health care	en
dc.subject	personalization	en
dc.subject	ethics	en
dc.subject	Technik, Technologie	de
dc.subject	Soziologie, Anthropologie	de
dc.subject	digital healthcare	de
dc.subject	surveillance	de
dc.subject	digital twins	de
dc.subject	Technikfolgenabschätzung	de
dc.subject	Medizinsoziologie	de
dc.subject	Gesundheitswesen	de
dc.subject	Digitalisierung	de
dc.subject	Überwachung	de
dc.subject	Datenschutz	de
dc.subject	Prophylaxe	de
dc.subject	Gesundheitsvorsorge	de
dc.subject	Personalisierung	de
dc.subject	Ethik	de
dc.subject.ddc	600 Technik
dc.subject.ddc	300 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie
dc.title	Digital Twins in Healthcare for Citizens
dc.type	ConferencePaper
dc.type.status	publishedVersion
dcmi.type	Text
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.booktitle	Proceedings of the Weizenbaum Conference 2022
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.originalpublisherplace	Berlin
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.pageend	130
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.pagestart	122