Educational doll for children with chronic illness

An interactive children's toy serving as a surrogate by emulating medical condition characteristics of a child and providing responses and output to educate users about the medical condition, comprising:

• a microprocessor and a memory;
• a plurality of sensors electrically connected to the microprocessor;
• a plurality of output systems connected to the microprocessor;
• a replica device representing a medical device monitoring the child, wherein the medical device is configured to collect health status data of the child,
• wherein the microprocessor is programmed to:
• receive information from the plurality of sensors that is representative of a treatment for the medical condition,
• send signals to the output systems consistent with a reaction to the treatment for the medical condition characteristics of the child;
• receive health status data of the child from the medical device monitoring the child and being represented by the replica device;
• and
• synchronize health status data of the replica device with the health status data received from the medical device.