IS 3350 Doctoral Seminar (Systems and Technology) Focus: Security and Privacy Assured Health Informatics Fall 2015 Wednesday 12:00 - 2:50 PM Room: IS 828

Instructor: James Joshi Contact Info: 706A, IS Building, Tel:412-624-9982 Email jjoshi [AT] pitt.edu  Announcement Presentation Schedule Reading List Some Initial Project Ideas Important Links Security Track LERSAIS

Course Objective The goal of the Doctoral Seminar is to familiarize doctoral students with research and critical research assessment and enable them to practice skills required for Ph.D. dissertation. This includes understanding and evaluating literature, presenting technical material and gaining experience in selecting topics of interest and doing original research work on it. This fall, the course will attempt to accomplish this through review of representative state of the art technical papers covering theoretical and practical issues related to security and privacy issues in health care information systems. Healthcare represents a very significant application domain that adopts and benefits from the state of the art in IT. However, because of the sensitive nature of the healthcare information, security and privacy issues need to be appropriately addressed at various system, network and application levels to ensure that healthcare services are delivered to patients effectively, securely and safely. As various medical devices get interconnected in healthcare cyber infrastructure, volumes of healthcare data grow, and various social and professional entities are involved in patient care, emerging fields of Internet of Things, Cloud computing, Social networking, mobile systems find great potential for streamlining and advancing healthcare delivery services. At the same time, these emerging computing fields bring significant security and privacy issues. This seminar will explore state-of-the-art research work and future challenges in healthcare security and privacy areas. Grading The grading scheme will be as follows: Presentation of assigned papers: 25% Paper review: 25% Class participation: 10% Final project: 40% Papers will be assigned for presentation every week. Students not presenting will be required to review papers (typically one each week) and participate in discussion. Participation is based on the quality of the questions and discussions in class. Each student will choose a project to address a feasible research problem of interest and try solving it. Projects may also include reproducing significant published results. A maximum number of two students can be involved in a project depending upon the scope of the proposed work. Each student will write a research proposal and then implement it. If you have a disability for which you are or may be requesting an accommodation, you are encouraged to contact both your instructor and Disability Resources and Services, 140 William Pitt Union, 412-648-7890 or 412-383-7355 (TTY) as early as possible in the term.  DRS will verify your disability and determine reasonable accommodations for this course.