In spring 2025, Hannah Vinatzer, a member of the Digital Health team at the AIT Center for Health and Bioresources and a Master's student at TU Graz, received two separate awards. She was awarded the HL7 Master Award for her Master's thesis on the integration of a survivorship passport for childhood cancer survivors into the Austrian Electronic Health Record (ELGA). Independently, she and Nikola Tanjga, a PhD student at TU Graz and also a member of the AIT Digital Health team, were recognized with the IPS Visualization Award for their work on the Vidi project.
Hannah Vinatzer’s Master's thesis, titled “Conceptualization and Prototyping of an Electronic Health Record-Enabled Survivorship Passport for Paediatric Oncology”, focuses on the structured digital long-term follow-up of childhood cancer survivors (CCS). The so-called Survivorship Passport (SurPass) summarizes a patient's oncological history and provides personalized recommendations for long-term follow-up care into adulthood.
As part of her thesis, Vinatzer developed a prototype to integrate this document into the Austrian healthcare system. Using the SUPA app developed at AIT, relevant medical data can be collected, transformed into a standardized CDA document, and incorporated into ELGA. The technical implementation is based on international FHIR standards, facilitating potential adaptation for use in other European EHR systems.
Her work was recognized with the HL7 Master Award in March 2025. A recently published review report additionally confirmed that the generated document may now be officially integrated into ELGA "With my work, I wanted to demonstrate how intelligent digital integration can sustainably improve medical aftercare — not only in Austria, but internationally," says Hannah Vinatzer.
Separate IPS Visualization Award for the Open-Source Project Vidi
Independent of the HL7 Master Award, Hannah Vinatzer and Nikola Tanjga received the IPS Visualization Award for the open-source tool Vidi. The competition aimed to identify a design solution for the visualization of FHIR-based International Patient Summary (IPS) data. The developed design concept is based on the idea that medical data should be presented in a structured and easily understandable manner for both healthcare professionals and patients.
Following the award ceremony, the rights to the design were transferred to ELGA, while the project results remain accessible as open source via ELGA’s GitLab repository.
The project is publicly available:
- GitLab-Repository: https://gitlab.com/elga-gmbh/vidi
- Online-Demo: https://elga-gmbh.gitlab.io/vidi/
Presentation at the dHealth Conference
A scientific paper on Vidi has been submitted for the dHealth Conference in May 2025, detailing the technical implementation and application opportunities of the tool. Hannah Vinatzer (AIT, TU Graz) and Nikola Tanjga (TU Graz) will present another aspect of their collaborative work in the field of user-centered digital health solutions.