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Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Digital Health and Prevention
@lbi-dhp.bsky.social
We work hard at sustainable lifestyle changes through novel digital technologies
🔍 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
January 13, 2026 at 2:52 PM
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
December 23, 2025 at 9:58 AM
💡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. 🌍✨
December 19, 2025 at 10:12 AM
👏 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
December 18, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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
December 10, 2025 at 1:23 PM
🎉 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.
December 9, 2025 at 1:54 PM
✨ 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
December 9, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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
November 18, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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
October 28, 2025 at 12:14 PM
📢 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 👇
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...
bmcmedresmethodol.biomedcentral.com
October 27, 2025 at 3:02 PM
📢 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
October 24, 2025 at 2:54 PM
🩺 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
October 17, 2025 at 9:37 AM
📅 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 !💡
October 15, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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
September 29, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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
September 26, 2025 at 7:59 AM
🫀⌚ 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
September 25, 2025 at 10:56 AM
🌍 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
September 24, 2025 at 8:40 AM
💡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...
September 22, 2025 at 8:50 AM
🎓 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...
September 18, 2025 at 11:40 AM
🎓 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
August 21, 2025 at 3:16 PM
📄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
August 13, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Reposted by Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Digital Health and Prevention
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
August 12, 2025 at 10:00 AM
📄 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...
August 7, 2025 at 1:27 PM
☀️ 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
July 14, 2025 at 1:42 PM
🎓 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
July 9, 2025 at 12:48 PM