Human Digital Twins: Another EU Healthcare Initiative

Europe is leading the AI revolution in healthcare with two complementary but distinct initiatives:

1. Virtual Human Twins (VHT) Initiative: Launched in 2023, aims to create digital replicas of human organs and systems, to simulate diseases, predict treatment outcomes, and enable personalised medicine. In October 2025, the EDITH (Ecosystem for Digital Twins in Healthcare) released its formal “Roadmap for the European Virtual Human Twin” after two years of work, engaging over 800 stakeholders from academia, industry, healthcare and policy. The newly released EDITH Roadmap (2025) defines how Europe will evolve from isolated digital models to whole-body human twins, combining science, data, and supercomputing power.
2. COMPASS AI: As we have explained in a recent post, this initiative focuses on the safe deployment of AI in clinical practice, COMPASS AI builds governance frameworks, best-practice guidelines, and AI literacy across healthcare providers. Unlike VHT, it is not about modelling human biology — it is about how AI is used responsibly in healthcare.

Understanding both EU healthcare initiatives is essential for compliance with data protection, AI liability, and clinical adoption in the coming years.

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