CFP
mHealthSec2026: mHealth Security Workshop Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA Pittsburgh, PA, United States, August 4-6, 2026 |
| Conference website | https://mhealthsecurity-at-chase.github.io/ |
| Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mhealthsec2026 |
# IEEE/ACM CHASE 2026 - mHealth Security Workshop
## Call for Papers (CFP)
**Workshop Title:** mHealth Security: Protecting Mobile and Connected Health Ecosystems
**Co-located with:** IEEE/ACM Conference on Connected Health: Applications, Systems and Engineering Technologies (CHASE 2026)
**Dates:** August 4-6, 2026
**Location:** Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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## Organizing Committee
- **Workshop General Chair (CHASE 2026):** Prof. Honggang Wang, Yeshiva University, USA
- **Workshop TPC Chair:** Prof. Yucheng Xie, Yeshiva University, USA
- **Workshop Demo/Poster Chair:** Henry Ngo, Yeshiva University, USA
- **Workshop Web Chair:** Ashikur Nobel, Yeshiva University, USA
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## Workshop Overview
Mobile health (mHealth) technologies-smartphone apps, wearables, implantables, home monitoring devices, and connected clinical systems-are transforming how healthcare is delivered, monitored, and managed. Yet, these same technologies introduce critical attack surfaces and privacy risks across the data lifecycle, from on-device sensing and communication to cloud analytics and electronic health record (EHR) integration. Securing mHealth systems is therefore essential to maintaining patient trust, safety, and regulatory compliance while enabling innovation in connected health.
The mHealth Security Workshop at IEEE/ACM CHASE 2026 provides a focused forum for researchers, practitioners, clinicians, and policymakers to discuss emerging threats, novel defenses, real-world deployments, and open challenges in securing mobile and connected health ecosystems. The workshop seeks contributions that span theory, system design, implementation, user studies, and policy, with an emphasis on deployable solutions and interdisciplinary collaboration.
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## Topics of Interest
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Threat models, vulnerabilities, and risk assessment for mHealth apps, wearables, and remote monitoring systems
- Secure architectures for end-to-end mHealth data collection, transmission, storage, and analytics
- Lightweight cryptography, secure communication, and key management for resource-constrained devices
- Privacy-preserving data collection and sharing (e.g., anonymization, federated learning, differential privacy)
- Security and privacy of AI/ML models in mHealth (adversarial attacks, model stealing, robustness, secure training)
- Secure mobile sensing and behavior/physiological monitoring, including multimodal and wireless sensing
- Authentication, authorization, access control, and identity management for patients, clinicians, and devices
- Integration security between mHealth platforms, cloud services, IoT devices, and EHR systems
- Usable security and human factors in mHealth (patient and clinician facing interfaces, consent, transparency)
- Policy, regulation, compliance, and ethical considerations (e.g., HIPAA, GDPR, international frameworks)
- Security and privacy in telehealth, remote patient monitoring, and home-based care platforms
- Attack detection, anomaly detection, runtime monitoring, and incident response for mHealth infrastructures
- Testbeds, benchmark datasets, tools, and reproducibility frameworks for mHealth security research
- Case studies, pilots, and large-scale deployments of secure mHealth solutions in clinical or community settings
- Security for mHealth in low-resource environments and global health contexts
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## Submission Types
We invite several types of contributions:
### Full Papers (Research/Experience)
Up to 6 pages (including references), describing original research, system design and evaluation, or significant deployment experiences and case studies.
### Demo and Poster Abstracts
2-3 pages, describing tools, prototypes, datasets, or interactive systems relevant to mHealth security that can be showcased during the workshop.
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## Submission Guidelines
- All submissions must be in English and follow the main CHASE 2026 formatting guidelines (ACM conference proceedings format, double-column).
- Submissions must be original, not published or under review elsewhere.
- Papers should be submitted in PDF format via the CHASE 2026 workshop submission site (link to be provided on the main CHASE 2026 website).
- At least one author of each accepted paper must register for CHASE 2026 and present the work at the workshop in person (or as per the conference's attendance policy).
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## Proceedings and Publication
Accepted papers will be included in the official CHASE 2026 workshop proceedings or companion volume, subject to the conference's publication policies. Details (indexing, publisher, camera-ready instructions) will follow the CHASE 2026 guidelines for workshops.
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## Important Dates
- **Paper submission deadline:** March 16, 2026
- **Notification of acceptance:** April 7, 2026
- **Camera-ready deadline:** April 20, 2026
- **Workshop date:** August 6, 2026 (tentative)
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## Target Audience
The workshop aims to bring together:
- Researchers and students in cybersecurity, mobile and ubiquitous computing, wireless sensing, AI/ML, and health informatics
- Healthcare IT professionals, clinicians, and hospital or health system security leaders
- Developers and engineers from industry (mHealth app developers, device manufacturers, cloud service providers, telecom operators)
- Policymakers, regulators, and representatives from standards bodies interested in secure and privacy-preserving connected health
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## Planned Format
The workshop will feature:
- Paper sessions for full papers
- Keynote or invited talks from leading experts in mHealth security (TBA)
- Panel or discussion sessions on future directions, interdisciplinary collaboration, and standardization
- Poster and demo sessions to showcase emerging systems, datasets, and tools
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## Contact
For questions regarding submissions, topics, or participation for the mHealth Security Workshop, please contact:
**Prof. Yucheng Xie** (Workshop TPC Chair)
Yeshiva University, USA
Email: Yucheng.xie@yu.edu
For general information about IEEE/ACM CHASE 2026 (registration, venue, accommodation), please refer to the official conference website at https://conferences.computer.org/chase2026/
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**Acknowledgment:** The workshop is partly supported by NSF grant #2428595 (PI Wang).
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## Sponsors
- ACM
- IEEE
- IEEE Computer Society
- NSF
- Elsevier