dHealth 2026 – Proceedings

Scientific Papers

Scientific Session #1 - Digital solutions for mental health and neurology(May 12th, 09:00 - 10:30)


Session Chairs: Martin Stämmler, Franz Feichnter

Towards Digital Support for Mental Wellbeing in Retirement Transition: Expert Insights

Lana CVIJIC, Beatrice KAUFMANN and Kerstin DENECKE

Interrupting Anxiety-Driven Online Health Searches: A Preventive Digital Cyberchondria Intervention

Niko MALLECZEK, Eszter MÉSZÁROSNÉ CSUTA, Carina ARNBERGER, Christoph AIGNER, Selina BREUER, Thomas GRECHENIG and René BARANYI

Cross-Cultural Evaluation of Associative Memory Intervention Using Virtual Reality

Prince AMPOFO, Andrea VITALI, Francesca MORGANTI, Daniele REGAZZONI, Delali A. DOVIE, Joseph OSAFO and Caterina RIZZI

Value in App Store Data and User Reviews: Quality Assessment of Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s Disease Apps

Isabel SCHWANINGER, Paria IGHANIAN, Liyousew BORGA, Marijus GIRAITIS and Jochen KLUCKEN

Flexible Data Integration for Genomics-Driven Decision Support in Rare Genetic Epilepsy

Ariadna PÉREZ GARRIGA, Philipp HONRATH, Stefan WOLKING, Beatrice COLDEWEY, Susann A. BOZKIR, Nils FREYER, Patrick MAY, Yvonne WEBER, Rainer RÖHRIG and Myriam LIPPRANDT

The TeleEPI Feasibility Study

Tamara LISY, Johannes Peter KOREN, Clemens LANG, Susanne PIRKER, Dorien VAN BLOOIJS, Mireille BOUREZ-SWART, Adriano BERNINI, Philippe RYVLIN, Klaus DONSA, Gerhard GRITSCH, Hannes PERKO, Tilmann KLUGE, Markus FALGENHAUER, Patrick MAYR, Lise LYNEN, Valentina DAPUNT, Peter KASTNER and Christoph BAUMGARTNER

Scientific Session #2 - Finals of the MSc and PhD student award(May 12th, 13:30 - 15:00)


Session Chairs: Iris Leister, Agnes Vathy-Fogarassy, Elizabeth Borycki

Exploring the concept of an AI-Enabled Multi-Agentic Workflow to Support Telehealth Disease Management

Valerie REINISCH, Karl KREINER, Valentina DAPUNT and Günter SCHREIER

Preliminary Investigation of Federated Learning for MACE Prediction from Electronic Medical Records: A Multicontinental Study

Georg SLAMANIG, Stefan KALABAKOV, Lena LORENZER, Michael SCHREMPF, Gladys PIERRI, Kátia Mitiko Firmino SUZUKI, Stefanie JAUK, Diether KRAMER, Paulo MAZZONCINI DE AZEVEDO-MARQUES, Bert ARNRICH and Peter RAINER

Development of an Exergaming-Intervention for Children and Adolescents During Hemodialysis: A Pilot Study

Marleen KERSTIN, Lene STEGELMANN, Gesa SCHALK, Bernd HOPPE, Oliver PEER, Luisa KLEIN, Christina TAYLAN, Klara BRIXIUS and Thomas SCHMIDT

Automatic ETL Pipeline Generation for Mapping Heterogeneous Clinical Data into the OMOP Common Data Model

Elisabeth MAYRHUBER, Philip STAMPFER, Sai Pavan Kumar VEERANKI, Lukas STEININGER and Stephan WINKLER

Usability Comparison between Leap Motion Controller and MediaPipe in Serious Games

Ivana MOSTACHETTI, Davide FERRARI, Elisa BARCELLA, Martina CORNA, Kimiia ZAVAREH, Camilla PASINI, Paola VALENTINI and Andrea VITALI

Monitoring Adherence to Post-Sternotomy Movement Precautions: A Computer Vision and Generative AI Approach

Davide FERRARI, Giulia BESANA, Anna DOTTI, Elisa GASTALDELLO, Andrea ZAMARIAN and Andrea VITALI

Scientific Session #4 - Public health, education, and health literacy(May 13th, 08:45 - 10:15)


Session Chairs: Anne Busch, Andrea Vitali

An Agent-Based Cellular Automaton Platform for Simulating Climate-Driven Mosquito Vector Spread in Alpine Regions

Marco SCHWEITZER, Alexandra SCHWAIGER, Hasan TAHA and Bernhard PFEIFER

"From Knowledge to Action" - Empowering Communities Through Online Vaccination Training Across 75 Countries

Fabrice SEWOLO, Bahia ABDALLAH, Ala'a B. AL-TAMMEMI, Joelle CHAMOUN, Peter WAISWA, Kyaw MYINT AUNG, Abir KURDI ALAME, Chady KHATIB, Aline UWIMANA, Edson RWAGASORE, Jessica NAJM, Roksana MIRKAZIMI, Penstone KILEMBE, Mirjam MESSO, Stefan PETERSON, Tobias ALFVÈN, Claudia HANSON and Ziad EL-KHATIB

Engaging Citizens in Digital Health: A Participatory Exploration of Attitudes Toward Austria's ELGA

Michelle BINDEL and Elske AMMENWERTH

Experience from an AI-assisted Online Basic Biostatistics Course using R for Master of Public Health Students – A Pilot Study from the Bahá'í Institute for Higher Education (BIHE), Iran

Haleh ROOHI, Neda FORGHANI-ARANI, Ziad EL-KHATIB, Sahba ENAYATI, Claudia HANSON, Tobias ALFVÉN and Ojan ASSADIAN

Health Informatics Competencies and Workforce Needs in the Age of AI: A Canadian Case Study

Elizabeth M. BORYCKI and Andre W. KUSHNIRUK

aktivplan in Health Tourism: A Digital Prevention Platform for Sustaining Health-Promoting Behaviors Beyond the Stay

Daniela WURHOFER, Eva-Maria KRAH, Daria KOLOSOVSKAIA, Rania ISLAMBOULI, Vera FOISNER, Arnulf HARTL, Josef NIEBAUER, Gunnar TREFF, Rene ZECHNER and Jan SMEDDINCK

Poster Session(May 13th, 10:15 - 11:00)


Session Chairs: Bernhard Tilg

Integrating AI into Healthcare: A Targeted Methodological Approach Using Patient Journey Mapping

Andre W. KUSHNIRUK and Elizabeth M. BORYCKI

A Fit-Gap Analysis of Care Planning Tools: Evaluating FHIR Compliance

Jana SCHLOSSER, Peter KASTNER, Hannah VINATZER, Andreas ZIEGL, Kristina STEINER and Günter SCHREIER

Patient Consent for Secondary Use of Health Data: Insights from Re-consenting Biobank Donors

Sonja LANGTHALER, Philipp ORTNER, Dieter PLATZER, Markus PLASS, Dieter HAYN, Emanuel SANDNER, Aaron LAUSCHENSKY, Klaus DONSA, Marcus BLOHS, Monika VALJAN and Kurt ZATLOUKAL

Analysis of the IT Landscape of Austrian Biobanks

Volodymyr SHEKHOVTSOV and Georg GÖBEL

Impact Assessment Model for Digital Transformation in Hospitals

Johannes KRIEGEL and Clemens RISSBACHER

Digital Maturity and Digital Transformation of Municipal Health Care

Johannes KRIEGEL and Clemens RISSBACHER

From Guidelines to Action: A Systematic Approach to Translating Health Indicators into a Digital Prevention Ecosystem

Stefan HOCHWARTER, Mirna BAN, Thomas E. DORNER, Sandra HAIDER, Maren JELEFF, Katharina LICHTENEGGER, Theresa WEITLANER and Franz FEICHTNER

Technical Implementation of a Decision Tree for Pain Entity Identification

Elisabeth BAYR, Tabea HANSCHE, Tanja NEGER, Lukas PANSINGER, Peter BECK, Claudia KAGERER, Angela LIBISELLER, Katharina LICHTENEGGER, Andreas SANDNER-KIESLING, Stefan HOCHWARTER, Philip STAMPFER and Bernhard NEUMAYER

User Perspectives on Sharing Self-Generated Health Data

Michael SCHÖN and Mona DÜR

Design and Development of a Health and Lifestyle Data App to Empower Citizens

Theresa WEITLANER, Stefan HOCHWARTER, Tone-Lill AARSHEIM, Mari GJUL, Lana Dalåmo LACKEN, Andrej LAZUC, Birk Fjeldsård STEINSHOLT, Mari Jin Sjøvold SUNDAL, Emma Felicia WEIBY and Franz FEICHTNER

Multi-Stage LLM Pipeline to Support Qualitative Content Analysis - A Proof of Concept Experiment with Expert Validation

Eva FORSTER, Nadja KARTSCHMIT, Elisabeth KLAGER, Emmilie MOSOR, Benjamin SCHUSTER, Erika MOSOR, Tanja STAMM and Klaus DONSA

Designing Agentic Workflows in Healthcare Informatics: Challenges and Insights from a Student Perspective

Markus RADITS, Kerstin HIRSCH, Cheyenne JIROUT, Mirko RAFAILOVIC, Eva SCHWEIGHOFER and Julia WILLESBERGER

Zero-Shot TNM Staging from German Pathology Reports Using Pre-trained Transformer Models (BB-TEN)

Hasan TAHA, Werner O. HACKL, Sabrina B. NEURURER, Patricia GSCHEIDLINGER, Christoph HICKMANN, Helmut MÜHLBÖCK and Bernhard E. PFEIFER

Text-Based Classification of Mitral Valve Disease Severity from Echocardiography Reports

Veronika GOMBÁS, Gabriella MAJOROS and Ágnes VATHY-FOGARASSY

Signal Quality and Reliability of Heart Rate Measurement Using Simultaneous PPG and Inertial Data in Healthy Adults

Katrin HAINZL, Amr NEGM, Eva SCHWEIGHOFER, Nele WAGNER, Anne BUSCH, Michael SCHREINLECHNER, Samuel PRÖLL, Daniel PAVLUK, Martin BAUMGARTNER, Fabian WIESMÜLLER, Dieter HAYN and Günter SCHREIER

Automated LOINC Mapping of Persian-English Mixed-Language Clinical Laboratory Test Names

Abbas SHEIKH TAHERI, Ehsan BITARAF, Maani BEIGY, Nahid SEIFI, Reza SHABRANG, Anahita MANAFI, Farzaneh NEJATI, Majid Reza KHALAJZADEH, Kazem VATANKHAH, Sara HOSSEINI, Kiomars AHMADI, Saeedeh NAZERI, Maryam JAFARPOUR and Tanja STAMM

GenKom-PKU: Improving Patient-Provider Communication in Phenylketonuria

Moritz HENNINGER, Alexander HÖLLER, Daniela KARALL, Sabine SCHOLL-BÜRGI, Johannes ZSCHOCKE and Markus A. KELLER

Physical Activity Prediction for Patients in a Diabetes Telehealth System: Comparison of different Data Driven Approaches

Fabian WIESMÜLLER, Dieter HAYN, Martin BAUMGARTNER, Karl KREINER, Florian HOFFMANN, Markus FALGENHAUER, Günter SCHREIER and Gudrun WOLNER-STROHMEYER