IEEE/ACM CHASE 2026

mHealth Security: Protecting Mobile and Connected Health Ecosystems

In conjuction with IEEE/ACM CHASE 2026, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.

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.

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

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

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.

Submission Guidelines:

• All submissions must be in English and follow the main CHASE 2026 formatting guidelines (IEEE 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 workshop 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).

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.

Important Dates:

• Workshop Paper Submission Deadline: March 16, 2026
• Workshop Notification of Acceptance: April 10, 2026
• Workshop Camera-Ready Submission: April 20, 2026
• Workshop Date: August 6, 2026 (tentative)

Workshop Organizing Committee

• Prof. Honggang Wang
  Workshop General Chair (CHASE 2026)
  Yeshiva University, USA
• Prof. Yucheng Xie
  Workshop TPC Chair
  Yeshiva University, USA
• Henry Ngo
  Workshop Demo/Poster Chair
  Yeshiva University, USA
• Ashikur Nobel
  Workshop Web Chair
  Yeshiva University, USA

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

Please find more information on the dedicated workshop website at https://mhealthsecurity-at-chase.github.io/.

For questions regarding submissions, topics, or participation for the mHealth Security Workshop, please contact:
Prof. Yucheng Xie (Workshop TPC Chair)
Yeshiva University, USA

For general information about IEEE/ACM CHASE 2026 (registration, venue, accommodation), please refer to the official conference website at https://conferences.computer.org/chase2026/.

Acknowledgment: The workshop is partly supported by NSF grant #2428595 (PI Wang).

Workshop Flyer

You may also download the flyer PDF here.