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HEALTHCARE CYBERSECURITY ISSUES:
• Healthcare as critical national infrastructure
• AI in healthcare (e.g. clinical decision support software etc...)
• Big data/high performance computing (HPC) in healthcare
• Storage encryption, authentication, provenance in healthcare environments
• Healthcare supply chains
• Online health communities
• Health information exchanges (HIEs)
• Electronic health records (EHRs)
• Telehealth and/or patient portals
• Internet of (medical) Things (MIoT)
• Medical devices, medical implants, and/or medical wearables
• Wireless/mobile healthcare and/or remote patient monitoring
• Digital healthcare tools to improve patient safety
• Safety engineering in clinical facility settings
• Healthcare insider threats
• Software-controlled robotic medical systems
• Updating/patching software and re-certification of medical devices
• Applications of STAMP/CAST/STPA techniques to healthcare
• Ransomware attacks on healthcare - especially hospitals (see Note 1 below)
• Events resulting in (HIPAA/GDPR) healthcare privacy breaches (see Note 2 below)
• IT infrastructure in different types of healthcare facilities/services
• Empirical study of cybersecurity in a specific healthcare IT environment
• Research addressing the Conficker worm/botnet medical device air gap
• Policy/Legal/Ethical position papers – healthcare cybersecurity issues
• Economics of healthcare cybersecurity
• Technical efforts by governments to improve cybersecurity in healthcare
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IMPORTANT DATES:
• Paper Submission Deadline {all paper categories}: Friday July 25th 2025
• Paper Review Deadline for PC Members: Friday, September 5th 2024
• Paper Acceptance Notification: Saturday September 6th 2025
• Camera-Ready Accepted Paper Deadline: Friday October 10th 2025
• HealthSec 2025 Workshop Date: Tuesday December 9th 2025
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FIVE PAPER CATEGORIES:
1. Regular technical paper submissions between 4-8 pages
2. Short technical paper submissions between 2-4 pages
3. Lightning/Poster technical paper submissions between 1-2 pages
4. Case Study paper submissions between 2-6 pages
5. Position paper (opinion/invited paper) submissions between 2-12 pages
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