IEEE Healthcom 2026 invites proposals for half-day or full-day workshops that address timely and emerging topics in e-health networking, digital health, healthcare applications, and services. Workshops should provide focused, interactive forums for researchers, clinicians, industry practitioners, policymakers, students, and technology developers to exchange ideas and build communities around new healthcare challenges and opportunities.

IEEE Healthcom 2026 will be held in person in New York, NY, USA, from 19-21 October 2026. The conference program features keynotes, technical sessions, panels, and workshops on topics such as telemedicine, mobile health apps, wearable devices, data analytics, interoperability, privacy, AI, and digital health.

Workshop Scope and Topics of Interest

Workshop proposals should address focused, timely, and high-impact areas aligned with IEEE Healthcom 2026 and the broader e-health community. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:

• AI-enabled healthcare systems, generative AI, and clinical decision support • Telemedicine, virtual care, and hybrid healthcare delivery models
• Mobile health applications, patient engagement, and digital therapeutics • Wearable devices, biosensors, and remote patient monitoring
• Healthcare data analytics, federated learning, and predictive modeling • Interoperability, health information exchange, and standards
• Privacy, cybersecurity, trust, safety, and responsible governance • Internet of Medical Things and connected medical infrastructure
• Digital public health, health equity, accessibility, and global health • Clinical deployment, evaluation, implementation science, and regulation
• Human-centered design, usability, and patient-clinician interaction • Emerging business, policy, and translational models for eHealth
Workshop Formats

Proposed workshops may be designed as half-day or full-day events. Organizers are encouraged to choose an interactive format that supports discussion, networking, and community building. Possible formats include peer-reviewed paper sessions, invited talks, panels, posters, demonstrations, breakout discussions, challenge sessions, tutorials, or hybrid combinations of these elements.



Proposal Submission Guidelines

Workshop proposals should be concise, self-contained, and clear enough for review by the Workshop Chairs and the organizing committee. Proposals should explain why the workshop is timely, how it complements the main conference, and how the organizers will attract a high-quality audience and submission pool.

Proposal title: Full workshop title and proposed acronym, if any.
Organizers: Names, affiliations, email addresses, contact organizer, relevant expertise, and prior workshop or event-organizing experience.
Scope and rationale: Abstract, motivation, technical themes, goals, relevance to IEEE Healthcom 2026, and expected contribution to the community.
Target audience: Primary communities, expected number of participants, and anticipated balance of academic, clinical, industry, government, and student participation.
Format and structure: Half-day or full-day preference; tentative schedule; planned activities; invited speakers or panelists, if known; and mechanisms for interaction.
Review process: Planned submission types, review criteria, program committee plans, conflict-of-interest handling, and quality-control process.
Publicity plan: How the organizers will promote the workshop, attract submissions, and engage relevant communities before and after the conference.
Publication plan: Whether the workshop intends to solicit papers, abstracts, posters, or demos, and whether proceedings publication will be requested, subject to conference approval.
Draft call: A short draft Call for Papers or Call for Participation, including tentative workshop deadlines.

Organizer Responsibilities

• Prepare and maintain the workshop call for papers or call for participation, once approved.

• Publicize the workshop through relevant academic, clinical, professional, and industry channels.

• Manage workshop submissions, peer review, notifications, and final program preparation.

• Coordinate with the IEEE Healthcom 2026 organizing committee on deadlines, proceedings requirements, registration, room needs, and presentation logistics.

• Ensure that accepted workshop contributions follow applicable IEEE and conference policies.

• Have at least one organizer attend and chair the workshop in person.

Selection Criteria

Workshop proposals will be reviewed for timeliness, relevance to IEEE Healthcom 2026, technical quality, organizer qualifications, ability to attract participation, clarity of the proposed format, complementarity with the main conference, and potential to build or strengthen a research and practice community.