An Ecosystem of Digital Twins for Operating Room Management

Samuele Burattini, Sara Montagna, Angelo Croatti, Nicola Gentili, Alessandro Ricci, Laura Leonardi, Serafino Pandolfini, Sofia Tosi

Abstract: Digital Twins have been adopted in different healthcare contexts and several work suggests, beyond reporting specific applications, their exploitation to track and monitor resources and assets for clinical and managerial purposes. In this paper we present a pervasive ecosystem of digital twins, designed for mirroring the operating room and for supporting the whole operating suite management. A real-world architecture, devised for the operating suite of the Local Health Authority of Romagna, is then described, together with the resulting prototype implementation in which we particularly focus on the integration with the legacy systems and the standardisation of information according to the reference standard FHIR.