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Behaviour & Information Technology

For a Special Issue on

Security & Privacy in Health Systems

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Special Issue Editor(s)

Bridget Kane, Uppsala University Sweden
Bridget.Kane@kau.se

Saturnino Luz, University of Edinburgh
S.Luz@ed.ac.uk

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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Original unpublished research, including case studies, incident reports and literature reviews will be accepted for consideration.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

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