DPDAHS-26: The 3rd Workshop on Data Privacy and Data Analysis in Healthcare Systems (DPDAHS) @ IEEE ICHI 2026 Minneapolis, MN, United States, June 1-4, 2026 |
| Conference website | https://dpdahs.github.io/ |
| Abstract registration deadline | March 15, 2026 |
| Submission deadline | March 15, 2026 |
The 3rd Workshop on Data Privacy and Data Analysis in Healthcare Systems (DPDAHS)
In conjunction with the 2026 IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics (IEEE ICHI 2026)
June 1s-4th, 2026, Minneapolis, MN - USA
Objectives and Research Topics/Areas
Large-scale multimodal data generated by modern healthcare systems coupled with advances in artificial intelligence (AI) techniques have the potential for advancing medical research and improving patient care. At the same time, leveraging these data effectively requires addressing a host of novel challenges, intersecting privacy, scalability, and usability issues.
This workshop aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners in health informatics to discuss state-of-the-art approaches, real-world applications, and open challenges that drive future directions in this field. All submissions should present original research and provide high-quality contributions toward the areas of Data Privacy and Data Analysis in Healthcare Systems.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Privacy and Data Sharing: investigating the challenges of maximizing data usability while safeguarding patient privacy in healthcare data/EHR analytics, precision medicine, and data integration
- Trustworthy AI systems: examining the potential impacts of emerging AI models in biomedical applications, such as privacy risks and predictive bias; applications of AI in healthcare
- Decentralized Data Analysis: exploring emerging techniques for leveraging data across multiple sites including but not limited to blockchain-based technology, federated learning, and swarm learning
- Health Data Analysis Infrastructure: including but not limited to methodologies and tools, visualization analytics, health management/repositories, and real-world case studies
Paper submission instructions
This workshop will only accept papers that have not been previously published.
Papers should be formatted according to the IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Manuscript Formatting Guidelines (https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html).
Accepted paper formats (references are counted within the page limits):
- Abstract (up to 2 pages)
- Short paper (up to 6 pages)
- Regular paper (up to 10 pages)
Please click here to Submit your paper!
Accepted papers will be published in the IEEE ICHI 2026 proceedings (on IEEE Xplore – Indexed on Scopus and many other platforms).
At least one author of each accepted paper to the workshop must register and present the paper at the conference.
Review procedure
The reviewing process will be single-blind. All submitted papers will be reviewed by 3 international program committees.
Important Dates:
- Deadline for paper submissions: March 15th, 2026
- Notification of workshop paper acceptance: March 30th, 2026
- Camera-ready workshop paper due: April 7th, 2026
- Workshop Day (firm): June 1st, 2026
Workshop Chairs
Matteo Mantovani, Ph.D.
Department of Computer Science, University of Verona, Italy
Email: matteo.mantovani@univr.it
Luca Bonomi, Ph.D.
Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC), TN, USA
Email: luca.bonomi@vumc.org