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**Dell** presents an exploration into the role of digital humans in healthcare, which are computer-generated entities designed to interact with real humans using advanced AI technologies. Steve Lazer, the Global Healthcare and Life Sciences CTO for Dell Technologies, outlines the potential for these digital entities to alleviate staffing shortages in the healthcare industry and make healthcare more patient-centric. Lazer envisions digital humans taking on routine and repetitive tasks, thereby reducing professional burnout among healthcare staff. Dell Technologies is highlighted as believing in the future merger of digital humans and in-silico development to create a true clinical digital twin â?? visually and biologically replicating a patient. Dell sees forward-thinking healthcare organizations beginning to experiment with using digital humans as a staffing augmentation service to address staffing shortages or perform undesirable tasks, illustrating the potential for significant collaboration between the clinical workforce and digital humans in a technologically advanced, patient-centric future hospital setting.