Workshop: Establishing the Vision and Creating a Roadmap for Security, Privacy and Ethics Research in Healthcare

医疗保健是一种社会需求，目前医疗支出占国内生产总值(GDP)的17.7%。有一些新的挑战，如新的和不断演变的疾病(例如，耐抗生素细菌)、不断演变的情况(例如，新冠肺炎大流行)、不断演变的行为(例如，反Vaxxer运动、久坐的生活方式、阿片类药物危机)，这些都需要在治疗、药物发现和其他方面不断创新。信息和传感技术、通信平台和机器人辅助系统的进步导致了医疗保健服务质量和医疗保健成本控制的显著改善。在卫生和公共服务部门，物联网设备、机器人辅助系统、移动和边缘/云计算、社交网络、AI/ML等新技术的快速采用，创造了一个数据密集型、超连接的网络-物理交互系统。这些新技术为实现个性化健康和福祉的梦想提供了越来越多的机会。然而，所有这些技术都带来了太多自己独特的安全、隐私和道德挑战。该研讨会的目标是将大约50-60名科学家、学生和利益相关者聚集在一起，以确定在医疗保健中使用信息技术和计算所面临的安全、隐私、公平和伦理方面的独特挑战。通过汇聚来自计算、信息学和医疗保健、学术界、工业界和政府的参与者，研讨会旨在实现这些社区之间的交流，并确定这一背景下独一无二的主要挑战。研究结果将汇总在研讨会报告中，并分发给与会者和安全、隐私、医疗保健和信息领域的科学专家。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Healthcare is a societal need with health spending accounting for 17.7% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) today. There are new challenges such as new and evolving diseases (e.g., antibiotic resistant bacteria), evolving situations (e.g., COVID-19 pandemic), evolving behavior (e.g., anti-vaxxer movement, sedentary lifestyle, opioid crises) that require constant innovation in therapeutic treatments, drug discovery, and other aspects. Advances in information and sensing technologies, communication platforms, and robotics assisted systems, have led to significant improvements in the quality of healthcare delivery and in controlling the costs of healthcare. Within the Health and Human Services sector, there is rapid adoption of new technologies such as IoT devices, robotics assisted systems, mobile and Edge/Cloud computing, Social Networks, AI/ML, etc., creating a data-intensive hyper-connected cyber-physical interacting systems. These new technologies provide increasing opportunities to realize the dream of personalized health and well-being. However, all of these technologies bring a plethora of their own unique security, privacy and ethical challenges. The objective of this workshop is to bring together approximately 50-60 scientists, students, and stakeholders to identify the unique challenges in terms of security, privacy, fairness, and ethics underlying the use of information technology and computing in healthcare. By bringing together participants from computing, informatics, and healthcare, across academia, industry, and government the workshop aims to enable cross-fertilization between these communities, and the identification of the major challenges that are unique to this context. The insights and findings that results will be summarized in a workshop report and disseminated to the attendees and scientific experts in the fields of security, privacy, healthcare, and informatics.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.