SPH2013 focuses on original unpublished research on innovative methods, policies and concerns that can constitute the right building blocks for a new generation of electronic healthcare information systems that are at the same time more efficient, empowering and secure. So, it is expected novel articles about privacy, security, accountability and auditing for the healthcare sector. This special track also pretends to encourage the research dissemination to the stakeholders involved in healthcare information technologies, promoting the discussion on issues, challenges and solutions that are currently being developed all around the world.