By Gretchen Ramos and Zerina Curevac (August 28, 2018, 3:23 PM EDT) -- Over the last couple of years, the number of mobile health applications have doubled, with hundreds of thousands of such apps available today. The digital health market is anticipated to exceed $379 billion by 2024, and a large chunk of that market size is attributable to increased use of mobile communications technology and devices by consumers and health care professionals.[1] Until recently, there has been little guidance in terms of mobile health security frameworks. However, last month, the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence at the National Institute of Standards and Technology published a cybersecurity guide for electronic health record applications on mobile devices.[2] The 260-page guide is an important step to making mHealth apps more secure, especially considering hackers tend to target mHealth apps. Regulators and companies will need to prioritize mHealth security to ensure health care professionals and consumers can benefit from the new technology without fear of jeopardizing consumer privacy....