Since its beginning in 2007, the dHealth conference series is organized by the Austrian Working Group of Health Informatics and eHealth. Each year, this event attracts around 300 participants from academia, industry, government and health care organizations.

In keeping with its interdisciplinary mission, the dHealth conference series provides a platform for researchers, practitioners, decision makers and vendors to discuss innovative health informatics and eHealth solutions to improve the quality and efficiency of healthcare by digital technologies.

A special topic for the dHealth 2019 was “from eHealth to dHealth”, stressing that healthcare will be more and more data-driven in the future. While eHealth in general concerns healthcare IT solutions at professional healthcare providers, dHealth addresses broader fields of application in all areas of life, including sensors, networks, genomics and bioinformatics, data centered solutions, machine learning, etc.

The present proceedings give insights into the state of the art of different aspects of dHealth, including the design and evaluation of user interfaces, patient centered solutions, electronic health/medical/patient records, machine learning in healthcare and biomedical data analytics. These topics address the data path “from sensors to decisions”, providing an interdisciplinary approach to digital health, including aspects of biomedical and sensor informatics.

Dieter Hayn

Alphons Eggerth

Günter Schreier