About the Call
We are pleased to offer an Early Bird Submission track. This mechanism aims to provide flexibility, broaden participation, and foster an open and engaged research community. The Early Bird is hosted on OpenReview.net. Authors can receive constructive critiques from experts in the field and revise their work well before the regular submission deadline.
- The Early Bird submission will accept long papers.
- Submissions must adhere to the IEEE Proceedings Format: https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html
- Maximum length: 10 pages plus references.
The Early Bird track follows the same reviewing and publication standards as the regular submission. Reviewing ICHI uses double-blind reviewing for full and short papers; submissions should therefore be anonymized and all references and links disclosing the authorship should be blinded appropriately.
Important Dates
- Submission deadline: September 19, 2025
- Notification: November 21, 2025
Accepted Early Bird papers may be recommended for publication in the Journal of Healthcare Informatics Research (JHIR), pending approval by the chairs and the journal’s Editor-in-Chief. All accepted papers—whether published in JHIR or in the conference proceedings—must be presented at the conference, and at least one author must register at the authors’ registration rate. For comprehensive information and updates regarding the Early Bird submission, please visit our conference site: http://zhang-informatics.github.io/ICHI2026/. Authors whose papers are declined in the Early Bird round are welcome to revise and resubmit to the regular submission track.
Topics of Interest
IEEE-ICHI is dedicated to advancing areas such as AI, machine learning (ML), foundational principles of computer and information sciences and technology, communication technology to address challenges and problems in healthcare, and everyday wellness. Journal of Healthcare Informatics Research highlights novel, cutting-edge contributions in computing for the healthcare informatics research community. It covers three major tracks:
- Analytics—focuses on advancing AI/ML-based decision support, generative AI, data analytics, knowledge discovery, and predictive modeling for healthcare research.
- Systems—focuses on building and deploying novel healthcare informatics systems (e.g., architecture, framework, design, engineering, and application).
- Human-centered Computing—focuses on smart communication with health stakeholders (e.g., doctors, nurses, and patients), adaptive interface design for health systems, user experiences of health informatics, and understanding and motivating health behavior.
By addressing these areas, IEEE-ICHI aims to bridge the gap between healthcare and information technology, fostering interdisciplinary collaboration and development of novel methods to improve patient outcomes and public health.
Topics include but are not limited to:
- Analytics:
- AI/ML-based decision support systems
- Generative AI for healthcare
- Safe and trustworthy AI in healthcare
- Interoperability and data integration
- Predictive modeling
- Medical information retrieval
- Medical natural language processing
- Smart health and connected health
- Social media analytics
- Medical recommender system
- Disease profiling and personalized treatment
- Visualization of medical data
- Intelligent medical devices and sensors
- Epidemiological surveillance systems and intervention modeling
- Semantic Web, linked data, and ontology
- Statistics and quality of medical data
- Systems:
- In-home and continuous health monitoring
- Cybersecurity in healthcare
- Healthcare software architecture, framework, design, and engineering
- Electronic health records
- Healthcare information systems
- Healthcare workflow management
- Health systems modeling and simulation
- Human-Centered Design and Computing:
- Intelligent healthcare stakeholder communication systems
- Mixed reality-based healthcare systems
- Patient engagement and experience in healthcare
- Usability studies in healthcare
- User-interface design for medical devices and healthcare software
- Health service delivery
- Health games
- Consumer and clinician health information needs, seeking, sharing, and use
- Assistive and adaptive ubiquitous computing technologies
Early Submission Chair
All accepted papers will be included in the IEEE Xplore proceedings.