Security and privacy challenges for healthcare: Minitrack overview

The Security and Privacy Challenges for Healthcare minitrack at HICSS-50 provides a unique perspective on the emerging field of information security and privacy advancements in healthcare. Three high quality papers were selected for the minitrack, which represent a wide range of research interests. These include evaluating the tension between sharing and protecting health information, assessing risk to ambulatory medical devices using attack-graph threat modeling, and privacy-aware research and development in wearable health technology. While distinct, these papers touch upon a very common growing concern in our society, namely addressing security and privacy concerns during the collection, storage and handling of Protected Health Information (PHI) and electronic health records.