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.
Organizing Committee
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
Submission Guidelines
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.
- All submissions must be in English and follow the main CHASE 2026 formatting guidelines (IEEE conference proceedings format, double-column).
- Submitted papers must be neither previously published nor under review by another workshop, conference or journal.
- Please use the workshop submission to submit your papers.
- At least one author of each accepted paper must register for CHASE 2026 and present the work in person.
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) |
Target Audience
- Researchers and students in cybersecurity, ubiquitous computing, AI/ML, and health informatics.
- Healthcare IT professionals, clinicians, and hospital security leaders.
- Developers and engineers from industry (mHealth, devices, cloud, telecom).
- Policymakers, regulators, and representatives from standards bodies interested in secure and privacy-preserving connected health.
Planned Format
- Paper sessions for full papers.
- Keynote or invited talks from leading experts.
- Panel or discussion sessions on future directions.
- Poster and demo sessions to showcase systems and tools.
Contact Information
For general information about IEEE/ACM CHASE 2026, visit the official website.
Acknowledgment: The workshop is partly supported by NSF grant #2428595 (PI Wang).
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