Iqbal Jeffrey David, Krauthammer Michael, Witt Claudia M, Biller-Andorno Nikola, Christen Markus
Digital Society Initiative, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Faculty of Medicine, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
NPJ Digit Med. 2025 Jul 28;8(1):484. doi: 10.1038/s41746-025-01897-4.
Digital Health Technologies represent a marked shift from current medical technologies in use, the approach to health and healthcare and stakeholders engaged in healthcare delivery. What the digitalized future of medicine will look like and how it should be governed is unclear. A participatory process with interdisciplinary expert groups developed scenarios of Artificial Intelligence use in medicine and recommendations on their governance. The process included a patient-consumer focus group and the recommendations were validated by a representative population survey in Switzerland. Digital twins were identified as a pivotal innovation for personalized healthcare, with 62% of the Swiss population expressing interest, though 87% oppose mandatory use. Additionally, 75% view the state as responsible for ensuring necessary infrastructure. Digital twins are seen as an opportunity to support both the healthcare provider as well as patient-consumer directly in different modes of use and along functions, prevention, diagnosis, prognosis, and therapy.
数字健康技术代表了与当前正在使用的医疗技术、健康及医疗保健方式以及参与医疗服务提供的利益相关者相比的显著转变。医学的数字化未来会是什么样子以及应如何对其进行管理尚不清楚。一个由跨学科专家小组参与的过程制定了人工智能在医学中的应用场景及其管理建议。该过程包括一个患者 - 消费者焦点小组，并且这些建议在瑞士的一项代表性人口调查中得到了验证。数字孪生被确定为个性化医疗保健的关键创新，62%的瑞士人口表示感兴趣，尽管87%的人反对强制使用。此外，75%的人认为国家有责任确保必要的基础设施。数字孪生被视为一个机会，可在不同的使用模式以及预防、诊断、预后和治疗等功能方面直接支持医疗保健提供者和患者 - 消费者。
