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The First International Workshop on Privacy and Security in HealthCare 2014 (PSCare14) is an international forum dedicated to the advancement of the theory and practical implementation of Privacy and Security in HealthCare. PSCare14 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. PSCare14 will be held in Halifax, Canada (22-25 September 2014) in conjunction with the 4th International Conference on Current and Future Trends of Information and Communication Technologies in Healthcare (ICTH-2014).


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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. PSCare14 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, PSCare14 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 PSCare14 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