Call for papers - Digital health data privacy, security and trust

Guest Editors:
Nariman Ammar: Illinois State University, USA
Le Sun: Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, China

Submission Status: Open | Submission Deadline: 28 June 2024

BMC Digital Health is calling for submissions to our Collection, Digital health data privacy, security and trust. The rapid growth of technology in the healthcare industry has, in many respects, revolutionized healthcare delivery. However, it has also raised significant concerns regarding digital health data privacy, security and trust. The aim of this collection is to provide a platform for knowledge-sharing and discussion on the issues surrounding the use of health data in the digital age.

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Meet the Guest Editors

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Nariman Ammar: Illinois University, USA

Dr Nariman Ammar is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Illinois State University and a Health Informatics Researcher at Ochsner Health. She has received her PhD in Computer Science from Wayne State University and her postdoctoral training in Health Informatics from the Oak Ridge’s Centner for Biomedical Informatics in the University of Tennessee School of Medicine. Her research interests include responsible AI for applications in healthcare, including building privacy-preserving, explainable, and unbiased Machine Learning.

Le Sun: Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, China
Dr Le Sun currently holds the position of a Professor in the School of Computer at Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, China. During her doctoral studies at Victoria University, Australia, her exceptional work was recognized with the prestigious Chancellor-citation Best PhD Award. Dr Sun also worked as a visiting scholar at Michigan State University in the United States. These experiences significantly benefited her academic journey and professional development. Her primary research interests include intelligent medicine and services computing.

About the collection

BMC Digital Health is calling for submissions to our Collection, Digital health data privacy, security and trust.

The rapid growth of technology in the healthcare industry, along with the utilization of big data analytics have created opportunities to revolutionize healthcare delivery and improve patient outcomes. However, they also raise significant concerns regarding data privacy, security and trust. Safeguarding digital health data is crucial to maintain patient confidentiality, protect against data breaches, and establish trust among stakeholders, for example healthcare professionals and patients. This call for papers invites researchers and practitioners to contribute their insights, findings, and solutions to address the challenges and enhance data privacy, security, and trust in digital health.

We invite submissions on various topics focusing on digital health data privacy, security and trust. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Ethics and public perception of data privacy in digital health
Emerging technologies and tools for enhancing data privacy and security in digital health
The role of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in analyzing health data while maintaining privacy and security
Building knowledge infrastructures to facilitate private data sharing
Real-world applications of successful approaches to data privacy, security and trust
The impact of COVID-19 on digital health data privacy and security

Please email Alison Cuff, the editor for BMC Digital Health, (alison.cuff@biomedcentral.com) if you would like more information before you submit.

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There are currently no articles in this collection.

Submission Guidelines

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This Collection welcomes submission of original Research Articles. Should you wish to submit a different article type, please read our submission guidelines to confirm that type is accepted by the journal. Articles for this Collection should be submitted via our submission system, Snapp. During the submission process you will be asked whether you are submitting to a Collection, please select "Digital health data privacy, security and trust" from the dropdown menu.

Articles will undergo the journal’s standard peer-review process and are subject to all of the journal’s standard policies. Articles will be added to the Collection as they are published.

The Guest Editors have no competing interests with the submissions which they handle through the peer review process. The peer review of any submissions for which the Guest Editors have competing interests is handled by another Editorial Board Member who has no competing interests.