In a demonstration of digital healthcare technology, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has created a digital twin of a para-athlete’s heart.
This is part of the IT giant’s Future Athlete Project, which is a look into the future of healthcare and sports analysis as the convergence of digital advancements and more affordable price points make personalised healthcare monitoring a mass market reality.
The project has seen the company create a digital twin of the heart of para-athlete Milly Pickles, which through sensors and artificial intelligence (AI) monitors her heart during training sessions.
Pickles, 29, had her right leg amputated from the knee down and lost two toes, including her big toe, on her left foot – or “human foot”, as she describes it – after being electrocuted when she was 20 years old.
She is aiming to complete the London Marathon in under four and a half hours next year, and is harnessing digital healthtech to reach her goal.
Using sensors and artificial intelligence, TCS provides personal insights after Pickles’ training sessions.
