HealthSec

3rd USENIX Workshop on Health Security and Privacy
August 6-7, 2012
Bellevue, WA

Important Dates
Paper submissions due: April 10, 2012 – Call for Papers Flyer
Notification of acceptance: May 22, 2012
Papers available online for attendees: June 22, 2012

Overview

There is rapidly moving trend, fueled by both the public and private sector, toward electronic healthcare systems and devices. These new systems show great potential to improve the administration of healthcare and ultimately, patient health. However, due to a host of technical shortfalls and a complicated regulatory environment, threats to patient safety, privacy and security loom large. The focus of this workshop will be on the development of new techniques and policies to ensure the privacy and security of next-generation healthcare systems and devices. 

HealthSec is intended as a forum for lively discussion of aggressively innovative and potentially disruptive ideas on all aspects of medical and health security and privacy. We strongly encourage cross-disciplinary interactions between fields, including, but not limited to, technology, medicine, and policy.

For the first time, the HealthSec Program Committee is soliciting previously unpublished, full-length technical papers that concern privacy and security threats, models, architectures, and protections for health information technologies.  We will also select shorter, position papers that show potential to stimulate or catalyze further research and explore new directions–surprising results and thought-provoking ideas will be strongly favored. Lastly, we hope to repeat last year’s lively rump session, open to anyone with work in progress or preliminary results.

We plan to expand this year’s workshop to two days, allowing for more time to discuss a wider array of thought-provoking ideas and topics.  The format of the workshop will be short presentations by the authors of position papers, longer presentations by authors with full-length papers. Paper presentation will be augmented by break-out discussion groups, expert panels and a keynote address. Papers will be published on the USENIX HealthSec web site.