In its most basic form, healthcare is gathering data, interpreting data into information, and transforming information into current human knowledge that can be acted upon, with each of these stages open to unintended errors and/or malicious subversion. These stages do not occur within a vacuum but rather within our existing infrastructures and social system with all their current limitations, systemic bias, and exploitable vulnerabilities. While a similar characterization can be made about security in other applied domains, healthcare is undergoing a dramatic transformation, arguably a technological revolution, presenting ground-breaking opportunities for improvement along with corresponding challenges in security.

Our desire is to bring together diverse researchers from academia, government, and the healthcare industry to report on the latest research efforts. As this is the third workshop, we want to continue momentum toward encouraging, jumpstarting, and growing excellent interdisciplinary contributions at the forefront of cybersecurity in healthcare research. Papers with demonstrated results will be given priority.