dHealth 2026 - Health Informatics Meets Digital Health
Conference Proceedings
Proceedings of the 20th Health Informatics Meets Digital Health Conference
Günter Schreier1, Martin Baumgartner1, Dieter Hayn1, Bernhard Pfeifer2,
1 AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria
2 UMIT TIROL – Private University for Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology, Hall in Tirol, Austria
Scientific Papers
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
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
<Session Chairs: Sabrina Barbara Neururer, Robert Mischak
Interdisciplinary Digital Medication Management in Mobile Care: Qualitative Findings from the Linked Care Trial
Susanne HENSELY-SCHINKINGER, Nathalie TRAUGOTT, Verena KOLLMANN, Peter PUTZ, Waltraud SCHWARZ, Franz WERNER and Elisabeth HASLINGER-BAUMANN
Quantitative Findings from a Controlled Trial of the Linked Care Digital Medication Reordering Solution in Mobile Care
Peter PUTZ, Doris ZEIDLER, Susanne HENSELY-SCHINKINGER, Verena KOLLMANN, Nadine STURM, Nathalie TRAUGOTT and Franz WERNER
Care for Context: Evaluating Speech-to-Text and Translation Services for 24h Live-In Care Communication
Anda-Ramona TĂNASIE, Philipp RAMEDER and Cornelia SCHNEIDER
Assessing the Compliance of Nursing Data in a Rehabilitation Portal with the German ePatient Record (ePA) Standard for Nursing Discharges
Jana STRATE, Annika HERING, Rhea BRINTRUP, Dagmar KREFTING and Ursula H. HÜBNER
Semantic Mapping of German Nursing Diagnoses in SNOMED CT: Risks and Challenges
Jessica Ferreira DA SILVA MARQUES, Elizaveta BEECK, Antonia SCHNELNAST, Elske AMMENWERTH and Philip STAMPFER
Digital Health Applications in Dietetic Practice: A Cross-sectional Online-Survey on Acceptance and Implementation in Austria
Renate MAIERHOFER, Hannah VACCARIN, Verena FUCHS and Peter PUTZ
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
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
Session Chairs: Anna Lin, Bernhard Pfeifer
Austrian EHDS Secure Processing Environment: from Regulation to Reality
Florian ENDEL, David WÜRFLINGER and Alexander DEGELSEGGER
Health Harbor Hamburg (H³): A Federated Health Data Space
Martin STAEMMLER, Norman FREIER, Franka KLIMM and Greta DE HAAS
Managing Incompatible FHIR Implementation Guides in a Single Backend: Namespace-Based Storage in Neo4j and Multi-Profile Delivery
Oliver KRAUSS, Andreas POINTNER and Christoph PRASCHL
RadEx: A Framework for Structured Information Extraction from Radiology Reports based on Large Language Models
Daniel REICHENPFADER, Jonas KNUPP, André SANDER and Kerstin DENECKE
Towards the Austrian Patient Summary: Implementation Strategy and Architecture
Emmanuel HELM, Andreas SCHULER, Gabriel LEONHARTSBERGER, Gerhard RIVA, Roman DIETRICH, Birgit SCHOLZ, Moritz BUCHMANN and Stefan SABUTSCH
Semantic Text Vectorization in Healthcare: Transformer-Based Foundations and Benefit Potentials
Werner O HACKL, Sabrina B NEURURER, Patricia GSCHEIDLINGER, Christoph HICKMANN, Helmut MÜHLBÖCK, Hasan TAHA and Bernhard PFEIFER