The intellectual crux of the meeting on Tuesday the 27th of November, centred on six clinical challenges and six scientific and technical challenges.
The six clinical challenges were:
These clinical challenges were posed as problems that could be solved by the Digital Patient when the technology is realised in the future. Serving as exemplars; they were chosen because they captured much of the diversity and complexity that the Digital Patient would have to deal with. The next question then was, βWhat are the scientific and technical challenges that need to be overcome in other to realise the Digital Patient?β
These scientific and technical challenges were explored in detail for each one of the areas below:
Identification of the scientific and technical challenges in each area was the result of an informed discussion within the scientific community.
