Submit a Manuscript to the Journal
Behaviour & Information Technology
For a Special Issue on
Security & Privacy in Health Systems
Manuscript deadline

Special Issue Editor(s)
Bridget Kane,
Uppsala University Sweden
Bridget.Kane@kau.se
Saturnino Luz,
University of Edinburgh
S.Luz@ed.ac.uk
Security & Privacy in Health Systems
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following Key Themes:
- Security and Privacy by design in healthcare systems, focusing on proactive security and privacy integration.
- Explainable and trustworthy security and privacy mechanisms in healthcare to improve transparency and trust in digital systems.
- Privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs) for enabling stakeholders' control over health data.
- Usable tools supporting data subject rights, including consent management, data access, rectification, and erasure.
- Privacy and security challenges of IoT, large language models (LLMs), and AI applications in healthcare and their solutions.
- Interdisciplinary approaches that integrate legal, technological, and societal perspectives in the design of secure and privacy-respecting health systems.
- Legal, ethical, and compliance frameworks for health systems, including alignment with privacy regulations.
- Privacy and security of frameworks and tools supporting stakeholders' access to health data, and
- Privacy and security of private and public health data sources
Submission Instructions
Submission of manuscripts for consideration - 8th September 2025
Decision & Reviews returned to authors - 20th October 2025
Submission of revised manuscripts - 1st December 2025
Final Editorial Decision Notification - 8th December 2025
Final manuscript to T & F - 16th December 2025
Original unpublished research, including case studies, incident reports and literature reviews will be accepted for consideration.
When submitting manuscripts for consideration, please Select "special issue titleā when submitting your paper to ScholarOne.
The expected publication date is early 2026