[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":173},["ShallowReactive",2],{"news-\u002Fnews\u002Fdigital-twins-book-all-chapters-in":3},{"id":4,"title":5,"authors":6,"body":10,"coverAlt":151,"coverCaption":152,"coverCredit":153,"coverImage":154,"date":155,"description":16,"draft":156,"extension":157,"hero":158,"license":159,"meta":160,"metaDescription":161,"navigation":162,"path":163,"reading":164,"seo":165,"stem":166,"summary":167,"tags":168,"updated":161,"__hash__":172},"news\u002Fnews\u002Fdigital-twins-book-all-chapters-in.md","All chapters in: Digital Twins in Medicine book enters Open Access production",[7],{"name":8,"role":9},"Robin Wilkening","Open Science Institute",{"type":11,"value":12,"toc":143},"minimark",[13,17,22,25,28,32,39,50,56,60,63,73,85,93,101,109,117,120,124,127,140],[14,15,16],"p",{},"All thirteen chapters are in. Each has been submitted, peer reviewed and\nrevised, and the volume now moves into Open Access production for Q4\u002F2026.\nThirty-seven authors contributed. Submissions came in against an April 1st\ndeadline, ran through peer review and revision, and the last acceptances landed\nin early July.",[18,19,21],"h2",{"id":20},"the-book","The book",[14,23,24],{},"The volume appears in Springer's Health Informatics series, edited by Robin\nWilkening, at roughly 240 pages. Thanks to support from the Open Science\nFoundation, it will be published Open Access.",[14,26,27],{},"The argument the book makes is that digital twins in medicine are no longer a\nmetaphor. By integrating multimodal health data into computational models, they\nsupport personalised prediction, simulation and continuous learning, and they\nsit at the join between digital health, systems medicine and artificial\nintelligence. What has been missing is not enthusiasm but an interdisciplinary\nframe, one that holds architecture, computation, ethics and clinical practice\nin the same view rather than treating them as separate literatures.",[18,29,31],{"id":30},"thirteen-chapters-three-sections","Thirteen chapters, three sections",[14,33,34,38],{},[35,36,37],"strong",{},"Foundations and Architecture of Digital Twins in Medicine"," establishes the\ntechnical base: digital twins as core infrastructure for a learning health\nsystem, the multi-layer architecture of the human digital twin, and\nverification, validation and uncertainty quantification for trustworthy medical\ntwins.",[14,40,41,44,45,49],{},[35,42,43],{},"Ethics, Governance, and Societal Implications"," takes the harder questions\nearly rather than appending them as a closing caveat: ethical foundations;\ngovernance models for responsible twin ecosystems; security, privacy and\ngovernance in healthcare deployments; and our own contribution, ",[46,47,48],"em",{},"Building an\nOpen Twin Ecosystem: Reference Infrastructure, Governance, and Adoption\nPathways",", which carries the foundation's position that twin infrastructure has\nto be open to be trustworthy.",[14,51,52,55],{},[35,53,54],{},"Clinical Applications and Future Directions"," is the largest section, six\nchapters covering health promotion and preventive medicine, cardiology and\nchronic disease management, oncology and personalised treatment pathways,\ndigital twin-assisted surgery, dermatology, and psychiatry and mental health.",[18,57,59],{"id":58},"the-author-field","The author field",[14,61,62],{},"Thirty-seven authors contributed, and the list reads as a working map of who is\nactually building medical digital twins right now. A few of the names give the\nmeasure of it.",[14,64,65,72],{},[66,67,71],"a",{"href":68,"rel":69},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.vph-institute.org\u002F",[70],"nofollow","Liesbet Geris"," is Executive Director of the\nVirtual Physiological Human Institute and coordinator of the EDITH Coordination\nand Support Action, the €5m European effort that produced the roadmap for the\nVirtual Human Twin, so the governance chapter is written from inside the process\nthat is currently defining European policy on this.",[14,74,75,80,81,84],{},[66,76,79],{"href":77,"rel":78},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.kcl.ac.uk\u002Fpeople\u002Fpablo-lamata-de-la-orden",[70],"Pablo Lamata"," at King's\nCollege London directs the Centre for Doctoral Training in Digital Twins for\nHealthcare and led the construction of more than 3,800 anatomically accurate\ncardiac twins, published in ",[46,82,83],{},"Nature Cardiovascular Research",".",[14,86,87,92],{},[66,88,91],{"href":89,"rel":90},"https:\u002F\u002Ffaculty.mdanderson.org\u002Fprofiles\u002Fcaroline_chung.html",[70],"Caroline Chung"," is\nChief Data and Analytics Officer at MD Anderson Cancer Center and served on the\nUS National Academies committee on foundational research gaps for digital twins.",[14,94,95,100],{},[66,96,99],{"href":97,"rel":98},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.darpa.mil\u002Fabout\u002Fpeople\u002Froozbeh-jafari",[70],"Roozbeh Jafari",", formerly of\nTexas A&M and MIT Lincoln Laboratory and now a program manager in DARPA's\nBiological Technologies Office, built much of the wearable sensing that makes\ncontinuous, real-world twin input possible.",[14,102,103,108],{},[66,104,107],{"href":105,"rel":106},"https:\u002F\u002Fdermatology-research.centre.uq.edu.au\u002Fprofile\u002F289\u002Fpeter-soyer",[70],"H. Peter Soyer"," at the University of\nQueensland leads ACEMID, the Australian 3D total-body imaging network for\nmelanoma detection.",[14,110,111,116],{},[66,112,115],{"href":113,"rel":114},"https:\u002F\u002Fvito.be\u002Fen\u002Fabout-vito\u002Femployees\u002Fgokhan-ertaylan",[70],"Gökhan Ertaylan"," at\nVITO works across systems medicine, data science and regulatory science, led the\n\"I am Frontier\" deep-phenotyping cohort, and is a partner in EDITH; he writes the\narchitecture chapter.",[14,118,119],{},"Around them: modellers, clinicians, ethicists, security researchers and\ninfrastructure people, from Europe, North America and Australia. That mix was\nthe editorial goal from the start, and it is the reason the book took the shape\nit did.",[18,121,123],{"id":122},"what-comes-next","What comes next",[14,125,126],{},"Production runs through the autumn: copy-editing, figures, proofs and the Open\nAccess licensing steps, with publication targeted for Q4\u002F2026. Authors will\nreceive proofs during that window.",[14,128,129,130,134,135,139],{},"Our own chapter connects directly to work happening on the ground. The argument\nthat open reference infrastructure is a precondition for trustworthy twins is\nbeing tested in the ",[66,131,133],{"href":132},"\u002Fresearch\u002F","OpenTwin project",", where the\n",[66,136,138],{"href":137},"\u002Fnews\u002Fbodyloop-scanner-freiburg\u002F","BodyLoop body scanner recently arrived"," and gave the\nproject its first physical measurement layer.",[14,141,142],{},"We will post the DOI and the open link here as soon as the volume is live.",{"title":144,"searchDepth":145,"depth":145,"links":146},"",2,[147,148,149,150],{"id":20,"depth":145,"text":21},{"id":30,"depth":145,"text":31},{"id":58,"depth":145,"text":59},{"id":122,"depth":145,"text":123},"The blue Springer cover of Digital Twins in Medicine, Health Informatics series.","Digital Twins in Medicine: Architecture, Ethics and Clinical Applications for a Learning Health System. 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