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The Digital Twin Dilemma: Why Most Hospitals Aren’t ‘Twinning’ (Yet)

The Digital Twin Dilemma: Why Most Hospitals Aren’t ‘Twinning’ (Yet)

Most hospitals have not adopted digital twins despite their potential to optimize patient flow, facility operations, maintenance, and environmental conditions because their systems are too fragmented, outdated, and difficult to integrate. Hospitals juggle disparate building-management platforms, legacy clinical systems, and mismatched vendor technologies, making unified modeling hard. Heavy data-governance and cybersecurity requirements add complexity, while limited budgets and scarce technical talent slow progress. Adoption is expected to grow as early projects prove ROI and provide repeatable models for others to follow.

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