Digital innovation in healthcare is supported by a range of digital solutions, including telemedicine, clinical decision support and prescription apps. The widespread adoption of such solutions raises quality concerns relating to safety, security, interoperability and maintainability. The aim of this workshop is to encourage discussion about the design, development, application and evaluation of models and model transformations that address quality concerns in medical software from the Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) perspective. Firstly, we aim to identify and explore the potential of modelling for digital transformation in healthcare. On the other hand, we want to discuss which modelling foundations are lacking to support digital transformation in healthcare. A key objective is to identify and develop common case studies, datasets, tools, standards and frameworks for researching model engineering for digital innovation in healthcare.

Submission Guidelines

All authors must submit their contributions as a PDF file via EasyChair. Type of submissions:

• regular research papers (10 pages)
• position papers (5 pages)

Paper authors need to submit their contributions as PDF files. These papers should follow the same formatting instructions used for the main track, available at https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template for both LaTeX and Word users. LaTeX users must use the provided acmart.cls and ACM-Reference-Format.bst without modification, enable the conference format in the preamble of the document (i.e., \documentclass[sigconf,review]{acmart}), and use the ACM reference format for the bibliography (i.e., \bibliographystyle{ACM-Reference-Format}). The review option adds line numbers, thereby allowing referees to refer to specific lines in their comments.

All submissions will be reviewed (single-blind) by at least three members of the program committee.

Accepted papers must be presented in person at the event in order to be included in the MODELS 2026 companion published by the ACM.

Committees

Program Committee

• Leen Lambers, Brandenburg University of Technology, Germany

• Georg Grossmann, Adelaide University, Australia

• Lucas Sakizloglou, Certora, Israel

Organizing Committee

• Franziska Bathelt, Medical University of Lausitz – Carl Thiem, Germany
• Bernhard J. Berger, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany
• Antinisca Di Marco, Università Degli Studi Dell'Aquila, Italy
• Georg Grossmann, Adelaide University, Australia
• Yngve Lamo, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway
• Leen Lambers, Brandenburg University of Technology, Germany
• Oscar Pastor, Universitat Politècnica de València
• Luise Pufahl, Technical University Munich, Germany
• Lucas Sakizloglou, Certora, Israel
• Harald Störrle, QAware, Germany
• Silvia Lizeth Tapia Tarifa, University of Oslo, Norway
• Pieter Van Gorp, Eindhoven University, Netherlands
• Jens Weber, University of Victoria, Canada
• Steffen Zschaler, King’s College London, UK

Contact & Website

All questions about submissions should be emailed to medicworkshop@gmail.com

More information can be found on the workshop website https://medic-workshop.github.io/