Personalising healthcare with connected digital twins
Digital twin research signals an emerging AI application area in healthcare that Australian health agencies may eventually need governance frameworks for.
Key points
- Alan Turing Institute blog explores digital twin technology applied to pulmonary arterial hypertension patients.
- Digital twins in healthcare raise AI governance questions around data use, consent, and model validation.
- Limited direct relevance to Australian federal AI governance - primarily a UK clinical research item.
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"Personalising healthcare with connected digital twins"
Source: Alan Turing Institute – Blog
Published: 13 March 2026
URL: https://www.turing.ac.uk/news/personalising-healthcare-connected-digital-twins
A blog post from the Alan Turing Institute discusses the potential of building personalised digital twins for patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension, a rare and serious lung condition. The item is primarily a research-oriented piece exploring technical feasibility rather than presenting governance findings or policy outputs. While digital twins are an emerging AI-adjacent application area with implications for health data use, consent, and model validation, this item is early-stage UK clinical research with minimal immediate relevance to Australian federal AI governance or APS practice.
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