Metaverse and Digital Twins

Blockchain and Healthcare Technology

Bhupinder Singh, Rishabha Malviya, Christian Kaunert

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2025
• Topic: Computer Science
• eBook ISBN:
  9783111644646
• Subtopic: Computer Science General
• Index: Computer Science

This book covers innovative research topics on Metaverse, Digital Twins and Disease Screening and Precision medicines which represents the convergence of three significant technological trends, each with the potential to impact healthcare on its own. However, when combined, they could establish entirely novel avenues for delivering care, offering the potential to reduce costs significantly and greatly enhance patient outcomes. These trends include telepresence/telemedicine, the digital twin (DT), and blockchain. Telepresence refers to people's capacity to virtually be together despite physical distance. This can be achieved through virtual reality (VR, immersing the user entirely), augmented reality (AR, overlaying artificial images onto a real image), or other methods. Aside from VR and AR, distinguish two other metaverse types: lifelogging (capturing, storing, and sharing everyday experiences and information about objects and people) and the mirror world (reflecting the real world but integrating and providing external environment information). In the healthcare context, telepresence is predominantly utilized in telemedicine, which involves delivering medical services remotely.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Frontmatter
• List of contributing authors
• Contents
• Chapter 1 Drug development in virtual world: metaverse and digital twins in healthcare technology
• Chapter 2 Digital twins in medical education and training: evaluation of metaverse technologies
• Chapter 3 Enhancing healthcare training with digital twin technology: a multidisciplinary approach
• Chapter 4 Tele-presence and immersive experience in healthcare: fostering metaverse and digital twins in medical research
• Chapter 5 Patient education through metaverse and digital twins
• Chapter 6 Privacy, ownership, and consent: legal implications of blockchain-integrated health data in metaverse platforms
• Chapter 7 Revolutionizing laboratory medicine: the integration of metaverse technologies
• Chapter 8 Therapy and support through metaverse technologies
• Chapter 9 Transforming healthcare economics and patient outcomes: impact assessment of emerging technologies
• Chapter 10 Unravelling the virtual world of metaverse: a virtual replication of healthcare entities
• Chapter 11 Digital twins and blockchain for cost savings and superior patient care: potential impact on healthcare costs and synergistic benefits
• Index
• Index