The National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) has released a draft of its first cyber securitypractice guide, “Securing Electronic Health Records on Mobile Devices,” and is seeking input through September 25, 2015. NCCoE was established in 2012 by the U.S. Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the state of Maryland, and Montgomery County, Md.
Medical identity theft costs billions of dollars each year, and altered medical information can put a person’s health at risk through misdiagnosis, delayed treatment or incorrect prescriptions.