ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Public Health
Sec. Digital Public Health
Volume 13 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2025.1674111
This article is part of the Research TopicExtracting Insights from Digital Public Health Data using Artificial Intelligence, Volume IIIView all 15 articles
Development of a Personal Health Management System Integrating Digital Twin Technology and Smart Wearables in China
Provisionally accepted
- 1Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, Hubei Province, China
- 2Tianjin University of Technology, Tianjin, China
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Traditional health management primarily focus on treating existing diseases, while neglecting early intervention, prevention, and proactive health maintenance. In contrast, modern Personal Health Management (PHM) emphasise not only disease treatment, but more on disease prevention. However, challenges such as a lack of proactive health management awareness, the complexity of physiological data presented by smart wearables, and the high cost and lack of high-quality medical resources hinder the effectiveness of PHM. To address these issues, this study explores the integration of smart wearables and digital twin technology in PHM. In the first phase, the study utilised semi-structured interviews with users to confirm the current challenges and, with experts to explore promising opportunities in PHM. Based on the insights, the paper proposed the assumptions of leveraging the synergistic potential of digital twin technology and smart wearables. In the second phase, the study built the smart wearables empowered Healthy Digital Twin (HDT) generation model by incorporating insights and experiences from multiple case studies. This HDT model includes four key layers: data monitoring, data aggregation, modelling and computation, and human-computer interaction. In the third phase, the study conducted an expert workshop and developed a comprehensive Product-Service System for Full-Cycle PHM based on the smart wearables empowered HDT. This system features three main steps, including health visualisation and early warning telemedicine system, and intelligent health maintenance program recommendation. This system helps to enhance health awareness, optimise daily health management, improve the telemedicine process, and fully utilise the potential of digital care.
Keywords: Smart Wearables1, Healthy Digital Twin (HDT)2, Personal Health Management(PHM)3, Proactive Health4, Health Visualisation5
Received: 27 Jul 2025; Accepted: 01 Oct 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Wang, Yang, Yu and Zhuang. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Dongfang Yang, yang_dongfang@email.tjut.edu.cn
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