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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.

Mobile Health IT
By Jessica Davis | 12:22 pm | April 20, 2018
Companies say the cross-sector partnership will create open source platform that it hopes other tech companies will use to innovate.
Interoperability
By Jessica Davis | 02:43 pm | April 19, 2018
The latest federal move in the fight to combat opioid abuse will have states sharing PDMP data with the DEA.
Privacy & Security
By Jessica Davis | 01:39 pm | April 19, 2018
The device manufacturer acquired St. Jude Medical last year and has since been working to fix severe vulnerabilities found in its pacemakers.
Compliance
By Jessica Davis | 05:23 pm | April 18, 2018
The agency released a five-point plan outlining regulatory changes to bolster medical device safety, including requiring manufacturers ensure devices can be updated and patched.
Electronic Health Records
By Jessica Davis | 01:32 pm | April 18, 2018
Just weeks after David Shulkin was ousted as VA Secretary, Scott Blackburn, one of the leaders of the department's EHR modernization project, announced his departure on Twitter.
Workflow
By Jessica Davis | 03:30 pm | April 17, 2018
The agency has been on the watchdog's list for three years due to a long list of vulnerabilities, from mismanagement to ambiguous policies.
Privacy & Security
By Jessica Davis | 01:59 pm | April 17, 2018
The rare joint alert says Russia, behind the global NotPetya attack, has been laying the groundwork for future cyberattacks and targeting critical infrastructure.
Privacy & Security
By Jessica Davis | 01:11 pm | April 17, 2018
Inogen reports a hacker accessed an employee email account for more than two months, according to an SEC filing.
Privacy & Security
By Jessica Davis | 03:09 pm | April 12, 2018
Expert security leaders from across the country will shed light on the industry’s biggest challenges and solutions at the upcoming event in San Francisco June 11-12.
Data Warehousing
By Jessica Davis | 12:37 pm | April 12, 2018
Middletown Medical left a radiology interface open to the public, exposing patient data in the process.