Jessica Davis

The longtime federal health IT leader joins Nebraska’s Election Systems and Software security team.

Spending on the Affordable Care Act marketplaces has decreased, as Veterans Affairs has ramped up IT modernization efforts, according to a Deltek report.

The hackers behind the attack on Allscripts have hit 10 organizations in the last few months, levering open RDP connections to proliferate inside a network.

Healthcare is the only industry where inside threats outnumber outside threat actors, according to Verizon’s most recent breach report.

The Choice Program was designed to shorten wait times and ease travel burdens for veterans. But Congress failed to pass the reform package last month.

Federal officials said that USCG’s requirements are almost 100 percent the same as the Defense Department and, unlike Veterans Affairs, the agencies can both rollout the electronic health record under a single contract.

The penalty highlights the need for healthcare providers to thoroughly vet third-party vendors to ensure security best practices.

The agency has been operating with pencil and paper for nearly three years after a failed Epic EHR project with the State Department.

The medical records vendor sued the agency in January for ‘absurd’ enforcement -- but HHS claims that CiOX has no constitutional standing for such a case.

Strasburger & Price's Corinne Smith opens up about the #MeToo movement, and the need to address other issues still plaguing women in the workforce.