dHealth 2025: Proceedings of the 19th Health Informatics Meets Digital Health Conference

Ongoing advances in artificial intelligence (AI), and the rise of large language models (LLMs), both have the potential to enhance the delivery of healthcare. But the successful transition of medicine and healthcare into the digital era will require a careful balance between risks and benefits, and these developments have been accompanied by new legislative efforts such as the European Health Data Space (EHDS), which aims to establish a common framework for health data across the EU, and the AI Act, which sets out regulations for the responsible development and deployment of AI applications.

This book presents the proceedings of dHealth2025, the 19th Health Informatics Meets Digital Health conference, held on 6 and 7 May 2025 in Vienna, Austria. Since 2007, the interdisciplinary dHealth conference has provided an annual platform for scientists, healthcare professionals, stakeholders and decision makers to present, discuss and develop their ideas on digital health innovations. The 50+ papers presented here offers a diverse snapshot of ongoing research trends in health IT across Europe, with the topics addressed placing a particularly strong emphasis on software, and covering areas such as the adoption of emerging technologies like AI and LLMs, predictive analytics, virtual reality, interoperability, and standardization. Several papers also explore the ethical, legal, social, and economic implications of digital health.

The book provides a comprehensive overview of the current state of eHealth and health IT research, offering insights for the future transformation of medicine and healthcare systems which will be of interest to all healthcare professionals.