Digital Twins in Healthcare System: Communication between Society and Law

The use of digital twin technology is aimed at revolutionizing the healthcare system, which would allow testing treatment with a human’s digital twin, forecasting the course of diseases, observing a body’s reaction to the medication or operation applied. This, in turn, will shape the effective level of communications between medical workers and patients. As the use of this technology is still at the initial stage of development, we should pay considerable attention to its legal regulation in order not to hinder the innovative development or establish control over it by the state, on the one hand, and – on the other hand – to prevent risks and threats from its use, to prevent and suppress illegal acts in this area, which may arise with the technology introduction, and to select the most effective model of legal regulation of such legal relations. Objective. To study possible directions of digital twins’ application in healthcare; to assess the state of legal regulation of these social relations and the level of communication between society and law, as well as to identify the risks of using digital technology in healthcare. Methods. In the research process, general scientific (analysis, synthesis, induction, deduction) and specific scientific methods of scientific cognition were used.