
Scientific Awards
Submissions originating from a PhD thesis can be submitted. Students must either be currently subscribed to a university with a PhD thesis in progress or must have graduated in 2020 to be eligible for submission."
Submissions are submitted using the category "PhD Student Paper". The paper format corresponds to the full paper format of regular submissions.
Submissions will regularly be reviewed and – if accepted – papers will be selected for oral or poster presentation. As regular submissions, accepted PhD papers will be published within the IOS Press proceedings.
Depending on the reviewers’ recommendations, the best PhD submissions will be selected for the Best PhD Paper finals. From all finalists, an independent jury will elect the winners of the Best PhD Paper Award, based on the reviewers’ evaluations, the written papers and the oral presentation. The best PhD student papers will be awarded in the categories Biomedical Engineering and Health Informatics.
The Best PhD Paper Award is worth € 500,-
Awards will be presented at the dHealth 2021 closing ceremony on May 12, 2021.
Submissions originating from a master thesis or equivalent can be submitted. The thesis etc. must either be in progress or it must have been finalized no earlier than 2020. The author of the paper needs to be subscribed at a university.
Submissions are submitted using the category "MSc Student Paper". The paper format corresponds to the full paper format of regular submissions. However, papers can be submitted both, in English or in German. English submissions may be considered for inclusion in the IOS press proceedings, depending on the quality. German submissions cannot be included in the IOS press proceedings, they will be displayed at the conference website.
Best Master Paper Award submissions will be reviewed in a separate review process and – if accepted – papers will be selected for oral or poster presentation. Depending on the reviewers’ recommendations, the best submissions will be selected for the Best Master Paper finals. From all finalists, an independent jury will elect the winners of the Best Master Paper Award, based on the reviewers’ evaluations, the written papers and the oral presentation. The best Master student papers will be awarded in the categories Biomedical Engineering and Health Informatics.
The Best Master Paper Award is worth € 500,-
Awards will be presented at the dHealth 2021 closing ceremony on May 12, 2021.
Take a look at last year's Posters here.

Application Awards
The E.T. Award - eHealth / Telemedicine Award for Innovative Patient Communication is assigned to the applicant who uses information and communications technology in the most innovative way, in order to establish new opportunities for communication in between health care providers and patients.
Eligibility Criteria
- Institutions or individuals active in (public) health care, industry or science
- Interdisciplinary groups or project consortia
- Organisations or associations
- The major contact person must be registered to the conference
- Submitted projects need to show first results in the context of health care provision, i.e. they should at least be in a pilot phase.
Submission
Submissions must be written in English or German language. The following data need to be sent to office@dHealth.at before 15.04.2021 in PDF format.
- Project description (max. 10 pages) including a short description (max. 1 page), describing the following aspects:
- Innovation (application, technology, processes, interinstitutional cooperation, ... )
- Benefit for patients (e.g. improved treatment quality, prevention of adverse events, new insights, economic benefits)
- Presence of results so far
- Sustainability
- Description of the applicant (short C.V. of the main contact person, description of the company / working group / institution /...)
Only complete submissions are forwarded to the expert panel.
Awarding Procedure
All submissions will be reviewed by an independent expert panel. The expert panel consists of independent, voluntary experts who only review submissions that they are neither directly nor indirectly involved in. The price will only be awarded if at least three projects are submitted. The E.T. Award will be awarded at the annual dHealth conference. No recourse to legal action is permitted.
Award Winners 2020
Winner
Best Master Paper
Biomedical Engineering
Identification and Quantification of Oxidized Lipids in LC-MS Lipidomics Data
Christoph A. Krettler
Winner
Best Master Paper
Health Informatics
Award Winners 2019
Best Paper of a
Master Student
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Predictive Modelling and its Visualization for Telehealth Data – Concept and Implementation of an Interactive Viewer
Michael Sams
Winner
Best Poster
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Award Winners 2018
Best Paper of a
Master Student
Foto: © Einstellungssache by Michael Mürling
HEALTHeBIKES – Smart E-Bike Prototype for Controlled Exercise in Telerehabilitation Programs
Patrick Mayr
Best Paper of a
PhD Student
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Winner
Best Poster
Foto: © Einstellungssache by Michael Mürling
Feasibility and Design of an Electronic Surgical Safety Checklist in a Teaching Hospital: A User-Based Approach
Karin Kiefel
Participants of the StartupSlam 2018
- CubileHealth GmbH (Michael Memelink)
- eedoctors (Andrea Vincenzo Braga)
- harmonyandcare (Anja Silberbauer)
- IB Lab (Philip Meier)
- Medicus (Vanessa Kretschmann)
- sezame (Florian Randa)
- TEXIBLE GmbH (Sarah Seyr)
Jury Members of the StartupSlam 2018
In addition to the audience you will have to convince these jury members to win:
- Benjamin Reuterer, en.co.tec Schmid KG
- Dirk Holste, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology
- Jörg Schönbacher, AUSTIN BFP Consulting GmbH
- Thomas Schabetsberger, ITH icoserve technology for healthcare GmbH
- Andreas Nemeth, UNIQA Ventures
- Andreas Schwarz, Sanlas Holding GmbH
- Leo Heilinger, Proceeder
Award Ceremony and Prizes of the StartupSlam 2018
The Award Ceremony will be held at the Social Event ("Heurigenabend").
The best three companies can choose from the following prizes:
- Consulting workshop at AUSTIN BFP Consulting GmbH
- Consulting workshop at Proceeder Unternehmensberatungs Gesellschaft m.b.H.
- Consulting workshop at en.co.tec Schmid KG
(First place -> first choice, second place -> second choice)
On top of that, the first prize is a ticket for HIMSS 2019 in Orlando, Florida.
E.T. Award 2018
Award Winners 2017
Best Paper of a Master Student
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Frequent Treatment Sequence Mining from Medical Databases
Krisztina Toth
Best Paper of a PhD Student
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Award Winners 2016
Best Paper of a Master Student
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Secondary Use of Claims Data from the Austrian Health Insurance System with i2b2: A Pilot Study
Florian Endel
E.T.Award
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"Bezirksübergreifende Software für die onkologische Chirurgie in Südtirol"
Project partners
Armanaschi1, A. Moskwaita2, H. Kaser1
1 Betriebliches Amt für klinische und strategische Entwicklung des Südtiroler Sanitätsbetriebes
2 Betriebsabteilung Informatik des Südtiroler Sanitätsbetriebes
Award Winners 2015
Best Paper of a Master Student
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Development of text mining based classification of written communication within a telemedical collaborative network
Katharina Gruber
Best Paper of a PhD Student
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Evaluation of a clinical decision support rule-set for medication adaptions in mHealth-based heart failure management
Martin Kropf
Award Winners 2014
Best Paper of a Master Student
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Validating EHR Documents: Automatic Schematron Generation Using Archetypes
Klaus Pfeiffer
Best Paper of a PhD Student
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Development of a Proposal for an Austrian Nursing Minimum Data Set (NMDS): A Delphi Study
Renate Ranegger
E.T. Award
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"HerzMobil Tirol - Kollaborative Herzinsuffizienz-Versorgung mit mobilfunkbasiertem Telemonitoring in Tirol"
Project partners
- TILAK Tiroler Landeskrankenanstalten GmbH
- Land Tirol
- Qualitätszirkel "Herzinsuffizienz - HerzMobil"
- AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH
Evaluation partner:
- UMIT - Private Universität für Gesundheitswissenschaften, Medizinische Informatik und Technik GmbH
Award Winners 2013
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Best Student Paper Award - 1st Place
ADokA: Prototyp eines NFC-basierten mobilen Arzneimittel-Dokumentations-Assisitenten
Schwarz M
Best Student Paper Award - 2nd Place
Rechtliche Rahmenbedingungen für die sekundäre Nutzung medizinischer Daten
Nachbagauer A
Best Student Paper Award - 3rd Place
Eine modellbasiierte Vergleichsmethodik für Kommunikationsstandards
Benedict M