Call for Papers

Half-day Workshop on Visual Analytics in Healthcare (VAHC) in conjunction with AMIA Annual Symposium 2026, Dallas, TX, November 7-11 2026

The 2026 Workshop on Visual Analytics in Healthcare (VAHC 2026) is the 17th annual workshop that provides an opportunity for participants to discuss state-of-the-art interactive visual data analysis techniques and review how such techniques can be applied to healthcare data. The primary objective of the workshop is to bring together leading VIS designers, scientists, medical experts, and visionaries to discuss: a) interactive data visualization techniques that can be applied to healthcare data, b) areas of healthcare that need more attention from visualization and visual data analysis research, and c) emerging research trends, visualization techniques, software applications, benchmarks, and open datasets. The workshop will enable presenters to showcase their ongoing work through oral presentation and system demos, either as video supplemental material or live demos during the workshop to be arranged with the organizers for maximum visibility. In years past, demos of prototype and/or production visual analytics software have been particularly well received, and paper submitters are encouraged to submit a companion demo proposal.

TOPICS AND SCOPE

We welcome discussions of the use of visual approaches, interaction design, statistical methods, and machine learning for healthcare data analysis. Participants may address the needs of various user groups, including (but not limited to) patients, clinical researchers, epidemiologists, public health analysts, physicians, hospital-based quality assurance officers, and insurance claim analysts.

The 2026 Workshop on Visual Analytics in Healthcare will cover a range of topics on the design, implementation, deployment, evaluation, and abstraction of visual analytics methods, including (but not limited to):

  • Clinical care:

    • Prescription drugs and drug-drug interactions
    • Multi-omic datasets
    • Longitudinal clinical data
    • Visual data mining of EMRs
    • Specific treatment contexts, emergency department, patient safety, mental health.
    • Clinical workflows
    • Outcome forecasting or prediction

  • VA-machine intelligence for healthcare data visualization

    • Human-centered AI for health decision-making
    • Human-AI collaboration and modern mixed initiatives
    • Equitable and ethical AI for healthcare analytics
    • Explainable and interpretable AI
    • Large-language model workflow integrations
    • Explainable AI and ML in healthcare

  • Digital health and personal health

    • Mobile health
    • Wearable devices' data control and processing
    • Telehealth and telemedicine
    • Personalized medicine

  • Patient-related applications:

    • Patient-generated health data
    • Understanding of patient behavior and experience
    • Patient education
    • Physician-patient communication

  • Public health data:

    • Public health surveillance systems
    • Epidemiology and disease surveillance
    • Health behavior and lifestyle studies
    • Health systems and policy evaluation
    • Longitudinal and genetic studies
    • Global health inequality and development tracking

PAPER SUBMISSION AND FORMAT GUIDELINES

We encourage a diverse range of submissions and demonstrations from academia, healthcare organizations, and industry in any of the types listed below:

  • Short papers (in "4+A+1" IEEE format or AMIA format)

    • Research
    • Application

  • Doctoral consortium (in "2+1" IEEE format or AMIA format)

    • Doctoral consortium: focuses on preliminary results related to visual analytics

  • Abstracts (in "2+1" IEEE format or AMIA format)

    • System demonstration (every system demo may be accompanied by a video demo submission)
    • Poster

4+A+1: We will accept papers with four pages plus one page of references (4+1). In addition, authors are encouraged to add additional figures to an appendix (A) section at the end of the manuscript. The appendix (A) section allows authors to present more of their interesting visualization results at greater resolutions, resulting in the paper format "4+A+1".

All material will be submitted via EasyChair.

Submission Templates:

Contact swaminathan.kandaswamy@emory.edu or he.huan@mayo.edu if you have any questions.

IMPORTANT DATES

  • Deadline for submission: August 1, 2026 August 10, 2026
  • Notification of acceptance: September 4, 2026 September 13, 2026
  • Camera-ready papers due: October 17, 2026 October 31, 2026
  • VAHC 2026 workshop: November 7, 2026

*All deadlines are due at 23:59 Anywhere on Earth (AoE) on the date indicated.