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Jessica Davis

Jessica Davis

Jessica Davis is Senior Editor for Healthcare IT News, exclusively covering cybersecurity and government policy. She writes the bi-weekly HITN Cybersecurity Checkup and is lead editor for Women in Health IT.

Workforce
By Jessica Davis | 01:53 pm | June 26, 2018
Following a tumultuous year stemming from reports that claimed Outcome Health misled investors, Rishi Shah and Shradha Agarwal stepped down to “provide clear leadership transition.”
Privacy & Security
By Jessica Davis | 01:09 pm | June 20, 2018
The healthcare billing claims vendor discovered a hacker accessed an employee workstation on March 22.
Analytics
By Jessica Davis | 05:15 pm | June 19, 2018
Veterans Health Affairs’ director of standards and interoperability warns that FHIR is not a cure all, just one valuable asset in a tech toolbox.
Compliance
By Jessica Davis | 04:12 pm | June 19, 2018
The cancer research center argued it didn’t need to encrypt its data as it was for research, but a federal judge upheld the OCR fine.
Electronic Health Records
By Jessica Davis | 12:52 pm | June 19, 2018
While there are challenges to fully utilizing FHIR, the specification will support workflows and provider experience between the organizations and multiple EHRs, Halamka said at HL7’s DevDays.
IT Infrastructure
By Jessica Davis | 05:04 pm | June 18, 2018
Organizations should treat the third-party vendor relationship like a marriage, continuing to assess and manage compliance, Henry Ford Health System’s Privacy and Security Director says.
Privacy & Security
By Jessica Davis | 03:03 pm | June 18, 2018
The first female U.S. chief information officer, star of the CBS show "Hunted" and Fortalice Solutions CEO Theresa Payton will speak at the upcoming Boston event in October. 
Privacy & Security
By Jessica Davis | 01:58 pm | June 14, 2018
While fighting conspiracy allegations for more than a year, Kaspersky had continued to work with law enforcement to fight ransomware and other threats, including the global WannaCry attack.
Privacy & Security
By Jessica Davis | 05:00 pm | June 12, 2018
A recent University of California survey found that a few delivery organizations and vendors believe 100 to 1,000 patients have had adverse events from compromised health IT infrastructure - and the threat will only persist.
Workforce
By Jessica Davis | 10:34 am | June 11, 2018
Via Oncology’s General Manager opens up about her own journey to find confidence in new roles, think outside of her comfort zone and lean on the support from leadership to find success in health IT.