We're at SALZ 2026! Join us March 11–12 in Salzburg for tech, innovation & networking. Visit our booth, explore our research & join the City Walk through the historic old town. See you there! 👋 🔗 dhp.lbg.ac.at #SALZ #DigitalHealth #ScienceForSociety

🔍 Studienteilnehmer:innen gesucht! Wir suchen Personen mit Herz-Kreislauf-Erkrankung, die seit ≥1 Jahr digitale Gesundheitsdaten (z. B. Smartwatch, Apps) nutzen. 📍 Salzburg | 🕒 60 Min Interview | 💶 40 € 👉 Interesse? Kontakt: [email protected] #ScienceForSociety #DigitalHealth #Study

Happy Holidays from LBI DHP 🎄✨ As we celebrate the season, we wish you a joyful Christmas and an active and healthy start to 2026. Thank you for advancing digital health, prevention, and innovation with us. We look forward to shaping a healthier future together in the year ahead. #DigitalHealth

💡November Recap: Connecting with partners in digital health. We presented to the #ALPS delegation (27 countries) about Austria’s innovation landscape, LBI-DHP’s role in digital health research, and potential collaborations. Thanks to Salzburg Research & Innosbg for hosting & organizing. 🌍✨

👏 Congratulations to Florian Katsch on defending his thesis on December 12, on integrating PGHD and EHR data into the OMOP CDM. Florian joined LBI-DHP in 2021, worked with PI Rada Hussein, and earned his degree at the Medical University of Vienna under Univ.-Prof. DI Dr. Georg Duftschmid. #career

Our PI, Rada Hussein, attended the Global Digital Health Alumni Project Week (Germany, 20–26 Nov 2025) as a DKFZ alumnus. The week focused on the intersection of Digital Health, AI, Ethics, and Ageing. Rada presented LBI-DHP projects and joined the DKFZ Alumni Advisory Board! 🎉 #DigitalHealth

🎉 Congrats to Prof. Dr. Dr. Mahdi Sareban on becoming Chair of Sports Medicine at University Clinic Krems and Professor at KL University! We’re glad he stays affiliated with our institute. His milestone reflects our mission: boosting careers, strengthening science, and driving #digitalhealth.

✨ Our LBI contributed to the great insights and inspiring exchanges at the 2nd Salzburger Symposium on Rehabilitation Research organized by #RehaHub by brining in future-oriented #digitalhealth expertise! #ScienceForSociety

Pavithren, PhD candidate in data-enabled cardiac prevention, has been selected for the Salim Yusuf Emerging Leaders Program 2025 by the World Heart Federation! One of 25 global leaders—congrats, and all the best in advancing the future of cardiac care globally! 🌍 #ScienceForSociety #WHFEL2025

From innovation to collaboration, the OIS zam: Forum 2025 showed how science and society can work hand in hand! 🤝 LBI DHP presented: 🛤️ Prehab2Rehab: Digital, personalized support before & after surgery 🌱 KlimaFit: Digital tools helping vulnerable groups adapt to climate change #ScienceForSociety

📢 New open-access in BMC Medical Research Methodology. Together with Medical University of Vienna, Semmelweis University, and University of Pécs we developed a semiautomatic approach to map Austria’s national drug terminology to international standards (RxNorm & RxNorm Extension). Read more 👇

📢 As the leading #DigitalHealth institute in Salzburg, we’ll present our research at the 2nd Reha-Symposium on 21 Nov 2025. Excited to see our work in real-world use, exploring digital interventions & collaboration. See you there! 👋 🔗 reha-hub.lbg.ac.at/events/2-sal... #ScienceForSociety

🩺 New paper at Pervasive Health 2025 We explore healthcare professional insights on how wearable data can support personalized physical activity planning in cardiac rehab - pointing to design needs for trust, workflow integration, and adaptive data sensemaking. #PervasiveHealth #DigitalHealth #PGHD

📅 Last week, our LBI for Digital Health & Prevention hosted a fruitful Scientific Advisory Board meeting with international experts. We shared exciting research insights, now working to strengthen #digitalhealth innovation in the regional and cross-regional ecosystem, as our SAB recommended !💡

Today is #WorldHeartDay! ❤️🌍 Every heartbeat matters. At LBI-DHP, we use digital tech to help people stay active and build healthy habits. 💪 As World Heart Day turns 25 today, here’s a challenge: move for at least 25 mins today — run, cycle, dance, or simply walk. Every step counts! #DontMissABeat

How can we make staying active more engaging? 🤔 Our research on Active Audio Adventures (presented at MuC 2025) shows that blending storytelling, gamification & real-time cues (like haptics) boosts motivation, lowers cognitive load & supports sustainable activity 🏃‍♂ #DigitalHealth #ScienceForSociety

🫀⌚ What if your smartwatch could flag inaccurate heart rate readings? At #MUC2025, we presented a real-time DL system that detects PPG errors without raw data, boosting trust in digital health. Thanks to all co-authors! 📄Paper: dl.gi.de/server/api/c... 🎥Talk: youtu.be/r9tPKoaLXMs #DigitalHealth

🌍 Reimagining Collaborative Care with AI & Art | Hackathon 2025 Glad to contribute at JKU Linz—invited by the OIS Center of @lbg.ac.at as one of 3 LBIs. With artist Emanuel Gollob, we proposed a challenge, reimagining care as collaboration between citizens, providers & AI. 🤝 #ScienceForSociety

💡Interdisciplinary research is key to solving complex health challenges. At Ars Electronica 2025, we joined experts from health, science & the arts to discuss how cross-sector collaboration can reimagine the future of healthcare 🏥🧩 Read more ➡️ ars.electronica.art/panic/en/vie...

🎓 Bridging gaps in patient pathways: Congrats to Dr. Isabel Höppchen! Last month Isabel defended her dissertation on how digital technologies can support patients moving from hospital care to cardiac rehab — co-creating the HERO app with patients & clinicians. 👉📖 dhp.lbg.ac.at/masterarbeit...

🎓 Faith Young, Dominik Hover & David Haag from our team are attending the UMZH Precision Digital Therapeutics Summer School 2025 in Zurich! An intense but inspiring start with great learning, practice & exchanges across disciplines. Excited for the days ahead! #UMZH #ScienceForSociety #DigitalHealth

📄Thrilled to share our JMIR paper on the iCHECK-DH interactive toolkit — helping teams meet new JMIR standards for reporting digital health implementations. Read: www.jmir.org/2025/1/e74235 #DigitalHealth #iCHECKDH #JMIR #DigitalHealth #ScienceForSociety

Plötzlicher Herzstillstand betrifft in Österreich jährlich rund 12.000 Menschen. Josef Niebauer vom @lbi-dhp.bsky.social​ erklärt im heutigen @kurier.at​, wie man vorbeugen kann – und warum Lebensstil & Aufklärung entscheidend sind. #ScienceForSociety Fotocredit: Kurier

📄 New publication! Our paper on Ganz Salzburg Bewegen is out in Research Involvement and Engagement. A citizen science project led by Dr. Stefan Tino Kulnik & Dr. Melanie Roth. 👉 Read the paper: researchinvolvement.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... 🌍 Project info: dhp.lbg.ac.at/ganz-salzbur...

☀️ Your workouts feel harder in the heat? You’re not alone. Join the HeatBeat Study and help us explore the future of exercise in a warming world! 👉 Learn more and preregister now at www.heatbeat.com 📩 Questions? [email protected] #Garmin #ScienceForSociety #DigitalHealth

🎓 Congrats to Duosi Dai, Erasmus trainee at @lbi-dhp.bsky.social, who just defended her KTH Royal Institute of Technology master’s thesis on how older adults with CVD make sense of wearable health data—offering LLM-based design insights! Read more 👉 dhp.lbg.ac.at/masters-thes... #ScienceForSociety

🎓 Celebrating Dr. David Haag’s PhD: Adapting health behavior models to micro-timescales for personalized health intervention. David defended his dissertation in June 2025. Huge congratulations to Dr. Haag on this milestone!👏 👉📖 Dissertation & defense video: dhp.lbg.ac.at/masters-thes...

❤️ Herzkreislauf Salzburg 2025 – LBI-DHP joined this charity run in the heart of Salzburg — and not only did we run, we placed! 🥈 Mahdi Sereban 2nd (men) 7️⃣ David Haag 7th (men) 6️⃣ Faith Young 6th (women) Thank you to the organizers for this meaningful event! #Herzkreislauf2025 #ScienceForSociety

📢 This year colleagues Stefan Tino Kulnik and Hannah McGowan presented their research at the annual #ACNAP in Sophia Antipolis, France. The congress revolves around cardiovascular care including prevention and emerging areas of digital health. #ACNAP2025 #CVD #DigitalHealth #ScienceForSociety

⚠️Save-the-Date 📅21.11.2025 📍Tribühne Lehen, Salzburg Erleben Sie das 2. Salzburger Symposium für Rehabilitationsforschung unter dem diesjährigen Motto „Rehabilitation im Wandel“. Gemeinsam mit @lbi-dhp.bsky.social und LBI AR. #ScienceForSociety reha-hub.lbg.ac.at/symposium-20...

📣 Zur Unterstützung des Teams am Uniklinikum Salzburg suchen wir zum ehest möglichen Eintritt ab 20 Wochenstunden eine motivierte Administrative Assistenz der Institutsleitung (w/m/d). Mehr dazu hier 👉 dhp.lbg.ac.at/news/stellen... #job #jobalert #digitalhealth #ScienceForSociety

🚀 Prehab2Rehab ist gestartet! Am 27.05. war Kick-Off unseres FFG-Projekts zu digitaler Unterstützung rund um OPs. Danke an alle Beteiligten! 💡 Mehr Infos: www.prehab2rehab.at 🔗LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/prehab2rehab #DigitalHealth #Prehab2Rehab #Prehabilitation #FFG #eHealth #mHealth #DiGA

Last week at #MIE2025, LBI-DHP hosted a workshop on EIF & EHDS2, shared a poster on PGHD integration, and presented a joint paper on semantic interoperability with IDERHA & HSBooster. Grateful to our team & #MIE2025 for the great event! #DigitalHealth #EHDS2 #IDERHA #ScienceForSociety

💡 On May 16, at DGPR 2025, our co-director Jan Smeddinck @smeddinck.bsky.social spoke on digital health in cardiovascular prevention—highlighting personalization, adherence, and user acceptance. 🔗 Learn more about DGPR: www.dgpr.de/home #DigitalHealth #ScienceForSociety #DGPR

🎉 Kick-Off Invitation: #Prehab2Rehab! An FFG flagship project for a seamless, digitally supported care pathway from prehabilitation to rehabilitation. 📍 Online (no registration) or in person: eveeno.com/252679555. 🇩🇪 in German ℹ️ More info: prehab2rehab.at #DigitalHealth #ScienceForSociety #FFG

🚀 The LBG Annual Report 2024 is here! “Science for Society”: a year of new institutes, insights & research impact. After years of work at LBI-DHP, 2024 sees aktivplan, the MORE platform, and healthcare data integration come together in one ecosystem driving research and development forward.

LBI-DHP at dHealth 2025 💡 This week our team joined #dHealth2025 to connect research with real-world digital health. Thanks to the Austrian Institute of Technology with our co-Investigator Dieter Hayn as co-organizer for an excellent event! More info: dhealth.at #DigitalHealth #ScienceForSociety

Hey all in the @acm-sigchi.bsky.social community, or linked to it; and esp. those lucky enough to attend @chi.acm.org 2025 in Yokohama these days: our PhD candidate (recently submitted!) David Haag <[email protected]> from @lbi-dhp.bsky.social will be presenting our work ...

📢 New publication by our PhD-Student Florian Katsch, Rada Hussein, Tanja Stamm and Georg Duftschmid: "Converting Health Level 7 Clinical Document Architecture (CDA) Documents to Observational Medical Outcomes Partnership Common Data Model (#OMOP CDM) by Leveraging CDA Template Definitions."

At IK 2025 @interdiscollege.bsky.social, we explored how cognitive science, philosophy, and bioengineering come alive through true interdisciplinary collaboration. 💫 Faith Young shares: “Participating in the IK2025 on Augmenting Mind and Body was a very unique and valuable learning experience...

On today’s World Health Day 🌍 we are delighted that our work was represented at European Society of Cardiology Preventive Cardiology 💙 congress 2025 in Milano. 🙏 We are grateful for the excellent collaboration with Dr. Balint Gartner and Prof. Dr. Andrea Podolsky at IPAS Krems! #ScienceForSociety

🚀 Missed the Digital Health Forum 2025 keynote? Watch our Research Co-Director, Jan Smeddinck (@smeddinck.bsky.social), dive into Generative AI in Personalized Health & Prevention! 🎥 Recording: youtu.be/Jtu-6G0JQ50 📑 Slides: cloud.lbidhp.at/s/eTXYHR2f9f...

🔍 Interviewpartner:innen gesucht! Leiden Sie unter einer Herz-Kreislauferkrankung und nehmen (oder nahmen) an einer kardiologischen Reha teil? Wir erforschen, wie Hitze Gesundheit & Mobilität beeinflusst – und möchten Sie interviewen! 📩 [email protected] | 📞 +43 676 / 55 12 481

Farewell, Isabel and Prabath! 💙 As March ended, we said goodbye to two wonderful team members, Isabel Höppchen and Prabath Jayatissa. Isabel will soon complete her 🎓 PhD (HERO project) and Prabath will continue his career at a research institution in Austria we've worked with successfully.

🎉We are proud to announce that Dr. Rada Hussein has been accepted as an expert member of the WHO-ITU Technical Working Group for Digital Public Infrastructure for Health @who.int ! 🌍 Congratulations on this remarkable achievement, Rada! 👏 #DigitalHealth #WHO #ScienceForSociety

Missed the webinar on Personalizing Digital Health hosted by @ehpsdigihealth.bsky.social? 🎥 Webinar Recording is now available! As part of this webinar, David Haag & Dominik P. Hofer discuss the potential of LLMs in personalizing JITAIs to promote physical activity.🏃‍♂️📲 🔗 Watch here: osf.io/xhs85

We’re thrilled to announce Dr. Ing. Jan Smeddinck will deliver a keynote on "Generative AI in Personalized Digital Health & Prevention" at the Digital Health Forum, Spring 2025! 📅 April 1, 2025 | ⏰ 4:15 pm CET | 📍 Online via Zoom 🔗 More details: www.c4dhi.org/news/250401-... #ScienceForSociety

Exciting news! The European Health Data Space #EHDS is now officially supported by REGULATION (EU) 2025/327, enhancing health data integration across Europe. It takes effect today & will be fully implemented by March 2029 🚀 Full details 👉 eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-conten... #ScienceForSociety

📢 Excited to share our paper "The Last JITAI?" was accepted to #CHI2025! We explored how LLMs can transform Just-in-Time Adaptive Interventions. GPT-4 outperformed humans in JITAI generation signaling a shift toward Generative Context-Aware Computing! #DigitalHealth #ScienceForSociety

🤩 Exciting news! Pavithren V S Pakianathan started a 2-month research internship at LASIGE, University of Lisbon, working with Tiago Guerreiro & Diogo Branco on improving health data sensemaking for cardiac care. Big thanks to LASIGE for the support and good luck to the team! #ScienceForSociety