Due date Extended: PSCare 2017 - The Fourth International Workshop on Privacy and Security in HealthCare 2017

CALL FOR PAPERS - DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JUNE 7 (FIRM DEADLINE)

The Fourth International Workshop on Privacy and Security in HealthCare 2017 (PSCare 2017)

in conjunction with the 7th International Conference on Current and Future Trends of Information and Communication Technologies in Healthcare (ICTH-2017)

Lund, Sweden | 18-20 September 2017 | https://pscare17-eriegypt.rhcloud.com/

Important Dates

• Paper Submission Due: June 7, 2017
• Notification of Acceptance: June 21, 2017
• Camera-Ready Due: July 21, 2017
• Workshop: 18-20 September, 2017

The Fourth International Workshop on Privacy and Security in HealthCare 2017 (PSCare17) is an international forum dedicated to the advancement of the theory and practical implementation of Privacy and Security in HealthCare. PSCare17 intends to provide the state-of-the-art technologies in the broad areas of privacy and security techniques in healthcare to industry, researchers, physicians, engineers, and students.

The inability to properly secure the healthcare systems, hospitals, protecting patients against emerging threats and vulnerabilities, and sustaining privacy and trust has been a key focus of research. The PSCare aims to provide a highly professional and comparative academic research forum that promotes collaborative excellence between academia and industry. PSCare17 is designed to help e-Health industry, privacy and security professionals to protect the privacy rights of patients and applying best practices to information privacy management. Moreover, PSCare17 aims to develop and implement secure and privacy preserving e-Health systems by ensuring the confidentiality, integrity and availability of personal health information and life-critical information systems.

The objectives of the PSCare are to bridge the knowledge gap between academia and industry, promote research esteem and to fostering discussions on healthcare information technologies, healthcare systems and global e-healthcare security and privacy applications. The PSCare17 invites speakers and researchers to submit papers that encompass conceptual analysis, design implementation and performance evaluation. All submitted papers are peer-reviewed (blind reviewed). The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Anonymity
- Security and Privacy Policies
- Privacy Preserving and Protection
- Secure Information Flow
- Biometrics
- Privacy Enhancing Technologies
- Security Policy and Privacy Requirements
- Social Engineering
- Security, Trust and Privacy
- User Profiling
- Cyber Security in Healthcare
- Secure Mobile Technologies and Telehealth
- Authentication Techniques
- Secure Electronic Health Records
- Telemedicine Anonymous Authentication
- Public Health Informatics
- Patient e-Safety
- Medical Errors Prevention
- Auditing and Quality Management
- Secure Health Modeling
- Database Security
- Healthcare Information Security
- Malware in Healthcare
- Security Solutions for Healthcare

Terms & Conditions
All papers accepted for PSCare17 will be published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series on-line.

• The number of pages for workshop papers is limited to 6 pages.
• For your convenience, a specific template for PSCare17 papers is given here.
• Authors should submit their contributions electronically in PDF format at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pscare17.

The submission processes will be managed by easychair.org. If you have used this system before, you can use the same username and password. If this is your first time using EasyChair, you will need to register for an account by clicking "I have no EasyChair account" button. Upon completion of registration, you will get a notification email from the system and you are ready for submitting your paper. You can upload and re-upload the paper to the system by the submission due date.
All PSCare17 workshop accepted papers will be printed in the conference proceedings published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series on-line. Procedia Computer Sciences is hosted on www.Elsevier.com and on Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com, and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will also by Scopus (www.scopus.com) and by Thomson Reuters' Conference Proceeding Citation Index http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-index/. The papers will contain linked references, XML versions, and citable DOI numbers. You will be able to provide a hyperlink to all delegates and direct your conference website visitors to your proceedings. All accepted papers will also be indexed in DBLP (http://dblp.uni-trier.de/).

Please,

• Do not make any changes to the structure of the template as this can lead to production errors.
• Do not alter the formatting and style layouts which have been set up in the template document Procedia Computer Science.
• Add the names of all authors and their affiliations.
• Add the phone number, fax number and email address of the corresponding author only at the bottom of the first page.
• The authors must follow Elsevier guidelines as given in ICTH-2017 website
  http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/icth-17/paper-submission.html

The selective outstanding papers presented at the workshop, after further revision, will be considered for publication in journals special issues at ICTH-17.