Digital Twins - a Prescription for Smarter Care?

SECTOR UPDATE – Allan Johns, Director of Facilities and Development, Auckland DHB

Imagine being able to fly through your virtual 3D hospital or healthcare facility. Peel back walls to reveal pipes or foundations. Explore plant rooms and send 360 degree imagery and geo-spatial information to your supply chain (all linked back to the 3D computer model). This is what Facilities Management can do today with a digital twin. But it’s what can come next to enable the future of smart, connected care that is really exciting.

A local example: Auckland Hospital and it’s digital twin

asBuilt, a team of local Digital Engineers are responsible for digitally modelling the whole of the Auckland Hospital Campus in what is thought to be the largest digitisation project of it’s kind in the Southern Hemisphere. See the video story here

At Auckland Hospital, asBuilt and the project team created an accurate digital replica of the entire hospital campus (a digital twin) which can be viewed, managed and interrogated online, via one easy-to-use platform. Vault is a 3D Spatial Intelligence Platform, as secure as its name would suggest.

While the digitisation process at ADHB was driven by the need to capture an accurate blueprint of infrastructure for construction and management reasons – it now provides a digital foundation on which to add smart technologies and build the next generation of care delivery and facilities management. And by all accounts of digital innovation trends – that future could be just what the doctor ordered for healthcare optimisation.

Digital Twins - A free white paper to learn more 

asBuilt’s white paper unpacks three good reasons to care about 3D spatial intelligence and digital twins and explores where it could take your healthcare facility (with case study examples):

• Reason 1: Know What you’ve Got and Where it is, with Certainty
• Reason 2: Gain Efficiencies in Facilities and Asset Management
• Reason 3: Adapt to be a Smart Hospital of the Future

Download the white paper here.

“Moving forward the asBuilt Vault Connected Construction Solution provides an opportunity to take all those great design outcomes and transfer those requirements to the construction and operations phases of the built asset life cycle.”

Allan Johns, Director of Facilities and Development, Auckland DHB.

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