Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Digital Health and Prevention

We met 57 participatory projects from across Austria! Poster presentations & Theme Cafés sparked great discussions and new ideas. Big thanks to @lbg.ac.at OIS Center for this inspiring event & to everyone who joined!

📎 More impressions: ois.lbg.ac.at/oiszam/forum...

📸 Fotos: © Victoria Posch

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

Semiautomatic mapping of a national drug terminology to standardised OMOP drug concepts using publicly available supplementary information - BMC Medical Research Methodology Background Mapping national drug terminologies to internationally recognized standards is essential for harmonising health data across regions and supporting secondary data use. In Austria, the nation...

📢 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...

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🩺 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

🙏 We would like to thank our Advisory Board (consisting of Lisette van Gemert-Pijnen, Elisabeth André, Duncan Barron, Jaap Ham, Victoria Hamer, and Marc van Kempen) for offering valuable reflection, feedback and suggestions on our work.

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📅 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

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Framed at the intersection of medicine, art & tech, participants reimagined healthcare: from shared-care code to privacy-preserving AI at home. Results were shown at Ars Electronica. Huge thanks to the organizers and all participants for their contributions! 💡🙌 #DigitalHealth #CollaborativeCare

🌍 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

At LBI-DHP, our work embodies the integration of AI, human–computer interaction & behavioral science to create user-centered tools for healthier lives. Thank you to Ars Electronica & @lbg.ac.at OIS for fostering this dialogue 🤝

#ScienceForSociety #arselectronica #DigitalHealth

💡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...

The HERO app orients patients after cardiac events, fosters emotional stability & boosts rehab participation. Isabel’s work also offers key design principles for mobile health. Huge thanks to Prof. Meschtscherjakov & congrats to Dr. Höppchen!

#DigitalHealth #CardiacRehab #ScienceForSociety

🎓 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

Huge thanks to Anuradha Liyanage & Rada Hussein for developing iCHECK-DH, to Caroline Perrin Franck (University of Geneva; Geneva Digital Health Hub) for developing this toolkit with other experts and refining it for global digital health 🌍, and to our Sri Lankan team for the real-world use case.

📄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

ein Mann liegt auf einer Truhe mit einem geöffneten Laptop

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? rania.islambouli@lbg.ac.at

#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...

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Moreover, the research includes a successful proof of concept using AI-powered just-in-time adaptive interventions (JITAIs) that outperformed the acceptability of JITAI suggestions generated by healthcare professionals or laypersons.

#ScienceForSociety #DigitalHealth #JITAI

In his PhD dissertation, David Haag demonstrates how social-cognitive and dual process theories of health behavior may work at micro-timescales of hours or days, not just for long-term goals.

🎓 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

Hannah McGowan presented on behalf of the ACHIEVE-Digital project: a systematic review of healthcare providers' perspectives on digital health interventions in cardiovascular disease prevention.

Stefan Tino Kulnik presented his work on shared-decision making in cardiovascular prevention and the use of wearable activity trackers in the community, and chaired a session on judging the evidence base for digital health interventions in cardiovascular care.

📢 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