Editorial

Silico and Strasys partner to deliver digital twins of hospitals

Companies sign agreement to enhance decision intelligence in the healthcare industry through decision simulations

Posted 29 November 2022 by Christine Horton


Decision intelligence and innovation consultancy Strasys is teaming up with business process simulation (BPS) vendor Silico to optimise decision-making in healthcare. The partnership formalises the integration of Silico’s BPS software with Strasys’ technology creating Digital Twins of entire hospitals and healthcare systems.

Two key challenges faced by the healthcare industry are information silos and ineffective interdepartmental information sharing. This partnership bridges these gaps by linking data across populations and regions. Ultimately, reducing risk and improving the care and quality of service for patients. 

The BPS platform allows Strasys to create digital replicas of individual business processes to test the efficiency of future changes. These digital replicas can then be linked together to form a Digital Twin of the organisation. This, says Strasys, enables it to simulate the outcome of different decisions across healthcare ecosystems. This will help healthcare customers to optimise operational processes, helping services to run more effectively and reliably, and achieving better patient outcomes.

The company adds that hospitals will have the ability to rapidly integrate third-party data with real-time metrics from across their own organisation to create large-scale Digital Twins. This will enable healthcare decision-makers to run advanced, AI-powered ‘what if’ scenarios that demonstrate the impact of changes to individual processes on the organisation. These changes can then be enacted via control automation.  

Using data to make better decisions

“Silico gives Strasys the ability to explore different futures to make better decisions and identify opportunities to reduce risk and improve the care and quality of service for patients,” said Silico CEO, John Hill. “Silico’s ability to generate forward-looking simulations and scenario analytics unlocks the next frontier of healthcare process improvement infrastructure.”

“Through the Strasys approach, using Silico, health and care systems will be able to bring together disparate datasets, ML/AI algorithms and qualitative data to create digital twins of their ecosystem – creating the foresight to bring stakeholders together to make better decisions. This reduces risk and improves the care and quality of service for patients and their respective populations,” added Strasys CEO, Naeem Younis.

Silico’s partnership with Strasys  follows its work with the NHS during Covid-19 in which it collaborated to create a process simulation model to help the NHS navigate resource allocation and waiting lists in their hospitals throughout and after the pandemic.