Awards
At the Nordic Conference on Digital Health and Wireless Solutions 2026, awards were presented in five categories: Best Abstract, Best Short Paper, Best Full Paper (Oral Presentation), Best Full Paper (Poster Presentation), and Best Reviewer. Congratulations to all the winners!
Best Abstract Awards
Aino-Lotta Ilona Alahäivälä; Tunc Asuroglu; Juha Pajula; Ileana Montoya Perez; Tapio Pahikkala; Antti Airola:
”Toward Standardized Evaluation of Synthetic Health Data Across Modalities for the European Health Data Space”
Raquel Simões de Almeida; Vítor Simões-Silva; Maria João Trigueiro:
“Industry-Driven Project-Based Learning in Digital Health Education”
Jarmo Mikkola:
“Mechanisms and Conditions for Digital Twin-Enabled Value Co-Creation in Public Healthcare”
Best Short Paper Awards
Desmond Hedderson; Helen Monkman; Ian E Blanchard; Karen L Courtney:
“Paramedicine Speech Recognition Adoption: A Socio-Technical Ranking Study”
Thanatcha Satitchantrakul; Niklas Takanen; Ping Jack Soh:
“Liquid-Based Polarization-Reconfigurable Antenna Using Gravitational Method for WBAN Applications”
Best Full Paper Awards (oral presentation)
Essi Miettinen; Anu Vehkamäki; Märt Vesinurm:
“Extending Customer Journey Modelling Language for Complex Healthcare: A Design Science Research Approach in Kidney Cancer Care”
Shuhao Que; Dieuwke van Dartel; Ilse Heeringa; Han Hegeman; Miriam Vollenbroek-Hutten; Ying Wang:
“Synthetic Data-Guided Feature Selection for Robust Activity Recognition in Older Adults”
Egne Annala; Taina Pellikka; Hilkka Korpi; Janna Nadav; Anu Kaihlanen; Paulus Torkki; Elina Laukka:
“Nurses’ Experiences Regarding the Impact of the Implementation of Digital Health and Social Center on Their Work and Other Practices: A Qualitative Interview Study”
Best Full Paper Awards (poster presentation)
Wendakoon Mudiyanselage Kavishwa Bhashitha; Nirnaya Tripathi:
“Self-Adaptive AI in Clinical Decision Support: A Systematic Review”
Syifaul Fuada:
“Analysis of Available Optical Power in an in-Body Optical Link at 810 nm for OWPT Across Biological Tissue”
Best Reviewer Certificate
Chaïmaâ Kissi