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Invitation

EFMI, GMDS and Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences are pleased to invite the Biomedical and Health Informatics community as well as colleagues from Biometry and Epidemology to join us in Osnabrück, Germany from October 20th – 22nd, 2025 and contribute to EFMI STC 2025’s Conference Programme. This conference seeks to bring together European scientists and those from abroad to share their latest methodologies and results for conducting evaluation of innovative and AI enabled health IT.

https://stc2025.efmi.org/call-for-papers

We particularly encourage early-career scientists and students to contribute to the conference.

Dates and Deadlines

  • Start date of submissions - 10 Feb 2025
  • End date of submissions (papers, posters) - 1 May 2025
  • End date of submissions (panels, workshops, submissions to industry and practice sessions) - 31 May 2025
  • Reviewer deadline for papers and posters - 28 May 2025
  • Preliminary programme available date - 7 June 2025
  • Start date of re-submission (correction) - 8 June 2025
  • End date of re-submission (correction) - 15 June 2025
  • Latest date of mandatory registration of paper and poster authors - 15 July 2025

We are using the Online Registry Platform for handling your submissions: Register with the Online Registry Platform and submit your contributions. All submissions go through a peer review process. All submissions must be in English and formatted according to the provided templates.

The EFMI STC 2025 Scientific Programme Committee (SPC) and Local Organizing Committee (LOC) invite you to submit a scientific paper or poster for peer review, to organize a workshop, panel, or to submit a contribution to an industrial session. Under the EFMI STC 2025 theme of Good Evaluation – Better Digital Health the programme will be built around the following topics, casting light on different perspectives of the evaluation of digital health:

  • Evaluating AI systems: performance metrics; explainability; acceptance; use; impact; others
  • Human and organisational factors: human factors; human-computer interaction; organizational issues including data and information management; patient safety; others
  • Social and political factors: social determinants; costs; international, national, and regional programmes and strategies; digital transformation
  • Technical factors: general quality of health IT; usability; interoperability; data protection & security, scalability; others
  • Ethical issues: ethical evaluation; data ethics; ethics in routine use; other ethical discourses
  • Evaluation paradigms and techniques: quantitative; qualitative; mixed methods; hermeneutic; evaluation designs; evaluation instruments; others
  • Research models, frameworks and theories: health IT maturity; implementation science; logic models; technology acceptance models; others
  • Education: education for evaluation; evaluation of education
  • Other related topics

Looking forward to your contributions
Ursula H. Hübner
Jan David Liebe
Osnabrück Germany