The policy brief of the VHT roadmap is open for public consultation. This is your last chance to provide input and feedback, donā€™t miss it!
EDITH is a Coordination and Support Action (CSA), funded by the European Commission, to prepare the roll-out of the Virtual Human Twin Initiative.
This entails the development of a shared vision and an inclusive eco-system driven roadmap. The roadmap contains a blueprint of the Virtual Human Twin and will identify the required (technical) developments, including but not limited to interoperability, computability, hardware and integration of health models & data. Ethical, Legal and Social elements are discussed, including privacy, intellectual property rights, standards, regulations, ethics and social acceptance. The user perspective is developed for a range of stakeholders, whose needs and value propositions have been identified through a range of activities and interactions. Finally, sustainability of the ecosystem and infrastructure are examined, looking at incorporation in clinical and industrial workflow, development of economic activities, a member-state strategy and the creation of a public research infrastructure organisation.
After going through extensive review by the ecosystem, the first draft of the roadmap has been released last year. Over the course of the past year, this roadmap has been continuously extended to elaborate the various points, through expert meetings, public ecosystem meetings and online recommendations.
In anticipation of the finalization of the full technical Virtual Human Twin roadmap, a draft of its summary text has been made available for comments. This extended summary contains a list of 30 recommendations that have been formulated based on the work performed by the EDITH consortium over the last 2 years, as well as the inputs received during the many physical and online meetings and opportunities to provide input. This draft text is now open for public feedback until December 10th and can be found here: D3.2 - Google Drive.
Finally, if your organization has not yet signed the manifesto, EDITH would be happy to help you secure the support of your organisationā€™s hierarchy. The manifesto and its signatories can be found here: www.virtualhumantwins.eu
