Hospitals are high-value targets and patient data is highly sensitive. This track covers securing medical devices and hospital networks, ransomware and incident response in healthcare, privacy-preserving analytics with federated learning and differential privacy, consent and compliance (PHIPA, HIPAA, GDPR), secure health information exchange, and resilience for health systems.
Topics of interest in Healthcare Cybersecurity and Health Data Privacy
Submissions to this track of International Conference on the Future of Health, Cybersecurity, and Education should address one or more of the following areas. Papers that connect several topics, or that link this track to the other health, cybersecurity and education conference tracks, are especially welcome.
- Securing medical devices, hospital networks and IoMT
- Ransomware and incident response in healthcare
- Privacy-preserving analytics, federated learning and differential privacy
- Consent, data governance and compliance (PHIPA, HIPAA, GDPR)
- Secure health information exchange and blockchain applications
- Resilience and business continuity for health systems
Who should submit to this track
Healthcare security specialists, privacy officers, clinical engineers, health-IT leaders, compliance experts and researchers in privacy-enhancing technologies are encouraged to submit.
How to submit and what happens next
Prepare your abstract or full paper with the paper submission guidelines and templates, then upload it through the Microsoft CMT portal before December 31, 2026. Reviewed papers are announced on February 10, 2027; camera-ready papers are due April 10, 2027. Authors can then complete their conference registration (hybrid: onsite or online presentation) and plan their trip to Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; visitors from abroad can check the visa and travel information.
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