The First International Conference on Digital and AI Technologies for Healthcare and Medical Advances
Nice / Saint-Laurent-du-Var, France
November 16 - 20, 2025
This event will be held in hybrid mode, with both on site and remote options.
Submission:
September 21, 2025
Notification:
October 13, 2025
Registration:
October 26, 2025
Camera Ready:
November 2, 2025
Submission deadline: September 21, 2025
- At a Glance
The International Conference on Digital and AI Technologies for Healthcare and Medical Advances (AIHMA) 2025 aims at harnessing the transformative power of digital and AI technologies in healthcare.
Conference Chairs
CEO PhD MBA
Sarfraz Khokhar
Rasimo Systems, Raleigh, NC, USA
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dipl.-Wirt. Ing.
Diethelm Bienhaus
THM University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Advisory Board
Prof. Dr.
Michel A. Audette
Old Dominion University, USA
Prof. Dr.
Mounîm A. El Yacoubi
Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France
Prof. Dr.
Gayo Diallo
University of Bordeaux, BPH/ISPED, France
Participate
If you want to get involved beyond submitting an article, please consider organizing a workshop, a thematic session, or a demo. Details are available on the Event Satellites page.
- Call For Papers
The International Conference on Digital and AI Technologies for Healthcare and Medical Advances (AIHMA) 2025 aims at harnessing the transformative power of digital and AI technologies in healthcare. Across its main themes, the event intends to explore the integration of innovative digital tools into various aspects of health and medical care. From breakthroughs in drug discovery and development, to advancements in personalized medicine, the conference will spotlight how digital solutions can foster healthier populations worldwide.
Each conference track is designed to delve into specific sectors of healthcare, emphasizing practical applications, advanced solutions, and well-being services.
Professionals from industry, government, and academia, researchers, engineers, practitioners, and students are invited to contribute. AIHMA welcomes 1) full papers presenting significant research, development, application, position, or survey, 2) short papers on work-in-progress, 3) posters, 4) contributed talk presentations, as well as workshops, thematic sessions, and demos.
Prospective authors are invited to submit original, unpublished works, which are not under review in any other conference or journal. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following.
Topics
- Telemedicine and remote healthcare
- Wearable health devices
- Mobile health applications (mHealth)
- AI and machine learning in healthcare
- Blockchain-based tools in healthcare
- Integration of wearable devices with health platforms
- Cross-border health data collaboration
- Global health policies and digital technologies
- Future trends in digital health technologies
- Disease surveillance and outbreak management
- Vaccination and immunization programs
- Health policy and global health governance
- Environmental health and sustainability
- Nutrition and food security
- Health promotion and disease prevention
- AI solutions for low-resource settings
- Digital health in humanitarian aid
- Digital mental health solutions
- Workplace mental health
- Mental health policy and advocacy
- Child and adolescent mental health
- Mental health during crises
- Integrative approaches to mental well-being
- Digital therapeutics for mental health
- AI and chatbots for mental health support
- Apps for stress management and resilience building
- Telepsychiatry and remote counseling
- Health data analytics and big data
- Health Information Systems (HIS)
- Health informatics education and training
- Digital health literacy
- Health information security and privacy
- Protection of patient personal data
- Digital innovation in health informatics management
- Medical systems integrations cross-hospitals
- Fitness, behavioral change, habit formation and lifestyle Apps
- Mobile Apps for chronic disease management (e.g., diabetes, hypertension)
- Preventative health and wellness Apps
- Behavioral health and mental health Apps
- Wearable devices and mHealth Apps
- Effectiveness of mHealth Apps
- Body sensing and networks
- Monitoring vital signs and symptoms patterns
- Personalized datasets and diagnosis prediction
- AI/M and personalized datasets in mHealth
- Big data and analytics in mHealth
- Telemedicine and remote monitoring through mobile Apps
- Ethics and privacy for development and deployment of mHealth solutions
- Effectiveness of mHealth Apps in clinical practice
- Integration of mHealth Apps and hospital medical systems
- mHealth networking and communication technologies
- Machine learning models for drug discovery
- Generative models for drug design
- AI for clinical trial optimization
- AI in personalized medicine
- Constructing knowledge graphs for drug discovery
- Network pharmacology and drug repurposing
- Data curation and quality control
- Genomics and gene-based approaches in drug discovery
- Pharmacogenomics and personalized medicine
- AI for accelerating drug discovery
- Predictive modeling for drug efficacy and safety
- Personalized drug development
- Case studies of AI in pharmaceutical research
- AI-powered personalized diagnostic tools
- Personalized treatment plans using AI
- Genomic data analysis for precision medicine
- AI in pathology and radiology
- AI for disease surveillance and outbreak prediction
- Digital tools for epidemiological research
- Contact tracing technologies
- AI in population health management
- Digital Tools for healthy aging
- Technologies for elderly care
- AI and robotics for assisted living
- Digital solutions for cognitive health
- Health monitoring for aging populations
- Immersion solutions for palliative care
- Building smart hospitals and clinics
- IoT in healthcare infrastructure
- Smart home health solutions
- Enhancing healthcare delivery with smart technology
- Equity in digital health access
- Ethical AI practices in healthcare
- Addressing health disparities with digital tools
- Data privacy and security in health technologies
- Digital tools and health literacy
- Patient portals and health information access
- Patients Engagement and Empowerment with self-management tools
- Access to healthcare services
- Socioeconomic factors and health
- Cultural competence in healthcare
- Global health organizations partnerships and collaborations
Instructions for Authors
For more information on the submission process, please consult The Detailed Instructions for Authors.
To submit your work to this event:
- Scientific Board
- Hugo Fernando Azevedo Barbosa, Lusófona University & SIIS – Social Innovation and Interactive Systems | Porto Polytechnic, Portugal
- Valérie Barbier, Firefighters Brussels, Belgium
- Ahmed Bentajer, MISCOM Lab. | ENSA Safi | UCA Marrakech, Morocco
- Diethelm Bienhaus, Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen, Germany
- Advaith Bongu, Rutgers-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, USA
- Ozgu Can, Ege University, Turkey
- Ahana Roy Choudhury, Valdosta State University, USA
- Gayo Diallo, University of Bordeaux, BPH/ISPED, France
- Mounîm A. El Yacoubi, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France
- Gilson A. Giraldi, National Laboratory for Scientific Computing, Brazil
- Albert Guvenis, Institute of Biomedical Engineering | Bogazici University, Turkey
- Yan Jia, University of York, UK
- Sheila John, Sankara Nethralaya, Chennai, India
- Ghazaleh Khodabandelou, Université Paris-Est Créteil (UPEC), LISSI Lab., France
- Sarfraz Khokhar, Rasimo Systems, Raleigh, NC, USA
- Ciro Martins, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
- Alvaro Rocha, ISEG | University of Lisbon, Portugal
- Magda Rosenmoller, IESE Business School, Spain
- Majid Sarrafzadeh, UCLA Computer Science, USA
- Arun Thotapalli Sundararaman, Accenture Technology, Chennai, India
- Agnès Voisard, FU Berlin and Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany
- Congcong Zhou, National Engineering Research Center for Innovation and Application of Minimally Invasive Instruments | Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital | School of Medicine | Zhejiang University, China
- Submit an Article
Before submitting, please consult The Detailed Instructions for Authors.
To submit your work to this event:
- Event Satellites
If you are interested in organizing a workshop, a thematic session, or a demo within the program of this conference, we are looking forward to hearing from you.
The details for what this entails are available at Event Satellites. The contact information on that page will serve as the starting point with someone ready to answer any questions you may have and to help set up the required logistics.
- Camera Ready
Prepare the camera-ready following these guidelines:
- Ensure the paper is formatted according to the IEEE formatting template. See https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates
- Consider all the comments from the reviewers that were sent with your acceptance notification email.
- Do NOT include page numbers or any copyright information.
- The length is 6 pages of text (including figures and references) in the standard IEEE two-column format above, with the possibility of 2 extra pages.
Upload your camera-ready here: DTR Society Press:
- Registration
The registration site will be open at the same time as the notification date.
Details about the registration process are available on the Registration page.
- Publication
All accepted and registered papers (full papers and short/work in progress papers), regardless of presentation mode, will be published in the conference Proceedings under an ISBN reference and included in the Digital Library.
Proceedings: DRT Society Press
Library: DTR Society Digital Library
Accepted and registered Posters and Contributed Talks, regardless of presentation mode, will be posted on the conference webpage.
- Presentation
All accepted and registered contributions are allotted a presentation slot of 25 minutes in the conference program.
We encourage everyone to attend the conference and present in person, but we recognize that this may not always be feasible. Authors who are unable to attend physically have the option to send their presentation slides in advance to be posted online. If a prerecorded presentation video is provided, it will also be made available.
Authors who will present in person at the conference location also have the option to send their presentation slides to be posted.
The in-person sessions from the conference location will not be streamed.
For additional instructions on preparing the presentation slides and optional video, please see the Presentations page.
- Peer Review
Methodology
All submissions are peer reviewed by three or more reviewers, and evaluated based on relevance, technical content, originality, competence, significance, and presentation.
Reviewers are asked to offer constructive feedback to help the authors improve their work, regardless of whether the submission is accepted or rejected.
Reviewers are expected to adhere to our Conduct Policies.
Notification
Notification of acceptance or rejection will be issued by the evaluation system and sent to the contact author email address.
Rebuttal
Authors have a period for rebuttal of one week after notification. A rebuttal can be filed by contacting us along with the relevant data (conference name, submission number, and reason for rebuttal)
All rebuttals are answered, and the decisions are final.
- Indexing
All 2025 events are first events in their series. Indexing is planned when the events get mature and solid in terms of number of contributions and content within the coming years.
The enhanced visibility of all publications is the scientific target of the DTR Society. The proceeding will be submitted to various indexes like Google Scholar, SCOPUS, DBLP, PubMed, HCIBib, EI-Compendex, etc.
- Conference Venue
The conference will take place at:
Novotel Nice Airport Cap 3000
40 Avenue de Verdun
06700 SAINT LAURENT DU VAR
France
Phone: +33 4 93 19 55 55
Email: h0414@accor.com
A group registration form is available.
For more information about the conference venue, please consult the Novotel Nice Airport Cap 3000 page we have put together.
- Touristic Information
For places to visit around the conference location, please consult the Nice / Saint-Laurent-du-Var touristic information page.
- Program
| Location Novotel Nice Aeroport Cap 3000 40 avenue de Verdun, St-Laurent du Var, 06700, France Time zone conversion: https://www.worldtimebuddy.com/ Sunrise and sunset times: https://meteogram.org/sun/france/saint-laurent-du-var/ |
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On Site Schedule | The schedule of events in Nice is available. Please note that there will be updates. |
Tutorial Lectures | T1: Generative Programming and the Hopeful Future of Modeling and Simulation Software Engineering – On Site CTO Scott Gallant, Effective Applications Corporation, USA
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| T2: LLMs in Practice: A Four-Step Journey from Idea to Implementation – Virtual Anni Chen, Amazon, USA
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| T3: Evaluating Binary Classifiers: What you Should Know about Performance Metrics (and Nobody Told you) – On Site Prof. Ing. Luigi Lavazza, Università degli Studi dell’Insubria, Italy
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| T4: IQRF – Open Standard for Wireless Mesh Networks – On Site CEO Dr.-Ing. Vladimír Šulc, MICRORISC, Jičín, Czech Republic
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| T5: Exploring a Modular Approach to Signal Processing Systems: From Gravitational Wave Analysis to Hearing Systems – On Site Dipl. Ing. Arwen Mannaert, NSX bv – KU Leuven, Belgium
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Keynote Speeches | K1: Advancing Software Factories: Rejuvenation, Control Systems, Meta-Model Support, and AI Integration – On Site Prof. Dr. Herwig Mannaert, University of Antwerp, Belgium
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| K2: The End of Work is Greatly Exaggerated: AI, Agents, and Labor – On Site Dalmo Cirne, Workday, Inc., USA
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| K3: African Digital Health Strategic Plans Analysis: Key Weaknesses in Contextualization, Intervention Focus, and Technological Foresight – On Site Prof. Dr. Gayo Diallo, University of Bordeaux, BPH/ISPED, France
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| K4: Joint Communication and Sensing in Next Generation Mobile Networks – Challenges and Potential for Innovative Services in Smart Cities and Environments – On Site Prof. Dr. Oliver Michler, Technical University Dresden, Germany
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| K5: Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity: Challenges and Opportunities – On Site Prof. Dr. Lasse Berntzen, University of South-Eastern Norway, Norway
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| K6: Trust in the Age of Generative AI: How Far Can We Believe LLMs? – Virtual Prof. Dr.-Ing. Rahamatullah Khondoker, THM University of Applied Sciences, Germany
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| K7: Model-Driven Software Engineering in the Age of AI – Between Irrelevance, Change, and New Perspective – On Site Prof. Dr. Hans-Werner Sehring, NORDAKADEMIE gAG, Germany
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Panels | Panel #1 – Monday Theme: Digital Adoption and Societal Challenges – On Site Moderator: Prof. Dr. Lasse Berntzen, University of South-Eastern Norway, Norway, Norway Panelists: Prof. Dr. Oliver Michler, Technical University Dresden, Germany Prof. Dr. Sambit Bhattacharya, Fayetteville State University, USA CEO Scott Gallant, Effective Applications Corporation, USA |
| Panel #2 – Tuesday Theme: The Future of Software + AI Symbiosis – On Site Moderator: Prof. Dr. Herwig Mannaert, University of Antwerp, Belgium Panelists: Prof. Ing. Luigi Lavazza, Università degli Studi dell’Insubria, Italy CEO Scott Gallant, Effective Applications Corporation, USA Prof. Dr. Hans-Werner Sehring, NORDAKADEMIE gAG, Germany |
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| Panel #3 – Wednesday Theme: AI Paradigms and Their Impact on Other Domains – On Site Moderator: Dalmo Cirne, Workday, Inc., USA Panelists: CEO Dr.-Ing. Vladimír Šulc, MICRORISC, Jičín, Czech Republic Dipl. Ing. Danilo Peeters, NSX bv, Belgium Prof. Dr. Gayo Diallo, University of Bordeaux, BPH/ISPED, France Dipl. Ing. Arwen Mannaert, NSX bv – KU Leuven, Belgium |
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Publications | All published articles (both presented on site or not) and presentation materials will be available in the DTR Society Library once the event concludes. List of publications: Data-Centric Framework for Testing and Benchmarking of scRNA-seq Pipelines Konghao Zhao, Nathan P. Whitener, Natalia Khuri Burkina Faso Drug Ontology: Harmonizing Pharmaceutical Data for Interoperability Bry Sylla, Tiguiani Maiga, Sibidi Tindano, Jean Serge Dimitri Ouattara, Issiaka Soulama, Borlli Michel Jonas Somé, Jean Noel Nikiema, Gayo Diallo Chatting With the CAD-System – a Good Way to Design Machinery (yet)? Erfan Eimaq, Lea Kleemann, Niklas Krüger, Bernhard Meussen, Rares Naghi AI-Enhanced Detection of Human Trafficking: Integrating Social Science Insights with Generative Artificial Intelligence for Homeland Security Michael Backus, Zach Delaney, Jonathankeith Murchison, Shyamal Das, Sambit Bhattacharya Using Embeddings to Train and Build Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning Models and Applications Dalmo Cirne, Pierce Buckner-Wolfson BuddyAI is Always by Your Side [POSTER] Satoshi Kurihara, Kazuma Arii, Reo Abe, Taihei Takahashi Isolated Polish Sign Language Recognition with Compact Sequence Models from Pose Landmarks [POSTER] Max Słota, Piotr Błędowski, Adam Stajek AI-Facilitated Glocal Saliency Maps Similarity Comparison as a Relaxed Approach under Compressed Decision Cycles Steve Chan Benchmarking Large Language Models for Clinical Data Retrieval via FHIR: A Prompt-and-Feedback Baseline for Tool-Augmented Agentic Systems Johannes Schmidt, Arne Ewald Detecting Violations of NST Theorems with LLMs through Retrieval-Augmented Generation Danilo Peeters, Geert Haerens, Herwig Mannaert The Rise of Context Engineering: How Generative AI Can Transform Systems Engineering Scott Gallant, Chris McGroarty Beyond Code Correctness for LLM-Generated Software in Specialized Government Contexts [POSTER] Scott Gallant, Chris McGroarty Using LLM for Code Refactoring: an Evaluation of Effectiveness and Correctness Luigi Lavazza, Gabriele Rotoloni Web Accessibility Testing Using Robotic Process Automation and Artificial Intelligence Vidhi Srivastava, Hans-Werner Sehring CARI: Continuous Authentication at Random Intervals for Secure Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communication in Autonomous Networks Md Jakir Hossain, Rahamatullah Khondoker A Study on Radar and Communications for Future Wireless Sensing Network Shintaro Mori Performance Evaluation of a System of Horizontal Subsurface Flow Constructed Wetlands Planted with Typha angustifolia for Household Greywater Treatment Alexander Jorge Torres Anaya, Vinie Lee Silva Alvarado, Jaime Lloret Revisiting Data Lineage and its Cross-Organizational Deployment Mortaza Shoae Bargh, Sunil Choenni Evolution of Greenness and Uniformity of Grass Coverage of C4 Species During Spring Green-up Compared with a C3 Turfgrass Pedro V. Mauri, Jose F. Marin, Jose Miguel Peña, Francisco Javier Muñoz, María del Pilar Garcia de Paredes, Ana Centeno, Lorena Parra Human-Centered Automation in the Public Sector: RPA and AI in Municipal Care Decisions Christina Aakre, Lasse Berntzen |