ITEA Technology webinar

Cyber-Physical-Metaverse in healthcare

26 May 2026 15:00-17:00 CEST | Online

In this edition of our ITEA Technology webinar series, we explored the transformative potential of Cyber-Physical-Metaverse technologies in healthcare. The session focused on concrete added value, highlighting emerging use cases, domain-specific requirements, open challenges, and practical solution approaches.

The Cyber-Physical-Metaverse represents a potentially disruptive direction for healthcare, combining digital twins, real-time patient data, connected therapeutics, and AI-driven decision support to achieve a better and more personalised treatment.

Imagine for example:

• A continuously evolving ‘Human Digital Twin’ integrating quantified-self data from wearables, sensors, and medical devices
• ‘Intelligent pills' enabling personalised drug delivery, forming an ‘actionable Machine Digital Twin’
• AI-driven treatment functions that dynamically connect clinicians, global medical knowledge, pharmaceutical data and patient-specific insights, potentially controlling the 'Intelligent Pill'

During this session, experts from Philips, Trianect, and VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland shared their perspectives, thoughts and experiences. The webinar also included interactive discussions and Q&A opportunities.

Agenda

The agenda featured the following elements. You can download the presented slides by clicking on the green links in the agenda.

• Introduction
  Dirk Elias, ITEA Chairman
  
  
• Closing the gap in stroke care: How StrokePointer™ merges EEG Biosensing and AI at the ambulance
  Maryse van 't Klooster, Clinical affairs manager, Trianect
  This presentation introduces StrokePointer™, a portable medical device designed to support emergency responders during the critical window before hospital arrival. By combining dry-electrode EEG with real-time AI decision support, it enables accurate triage and direct transport of suspected stroke patients to the appropriate hospital without delays. StrokePointer™ demonstrates how cyber-physical-health metaverse technologies can bridge prehospital and hospital stroke care, where every second counts: time = brain!
  
  
• Data, AI and cyberspace in image-guided interventions and therapy
  Danny Ruijters, Principal Scientist, Philips
  An exploration of how data, AI, and cyberspace technologies can benefit minimally invasive, image-guided treatment of patients.
  
  
• When your digital twin falls ill
  Johan Plomp, Senior scientist, Technical Research Centre of Finland – VTT
  When your smart watch data finally gets combined with your health data and fed into a digital twin mimicking your health status, what does it mean when your twin is falling ill? This talk reflects on learnings from personal health monitoring solutions and considerations for a future life with a twin.
  
  
• Interaction and Q&A with the audience

Recordings

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Topics for future webinars

With the input provided during the first webinar, we will work on a follow-up session, to dive deeper into the topics of interest of the audience. If you have a specific topic, that you would like to discuss more in-depth, please feel free to share that with us as well via email at info@itea4.org.

Contact

If you have questions regarding this ITEA Technology webinar on the Cyber-Physical-Metaverse, contact info@itea4.org.