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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.

Telehealth
By Jessica Davis | 01:52 pm | January 04, 2018
The bill gives legislative teeth to the agency’s Anywhere to Anywhere telemedicine program, including a clause that bars states from revoking providers who practice telehealth across state lines.
Privacy & Security
By Jessica Davis | 10:58 am | January 04, 2018
Consumerism. Patient safety. Privacy and security and enforcement and an increase in cyberattacks will be top of mind in the next twelve months.
By Jessica Davis | 01:08 pm | January 03, 2018
Agency is looking to crackdown on fraud, waste and abuse and plans to create a program to prioritize how money is doled out.
Precision Medicine
By Jessica Davis | 05:24 pm | January 02, 2018
The National Institutes of Health’s Genomic Working Group said researchers should build the program in a systemic way before reaching the planned 1 million participants.
By Jessica Davis | 01:51 pm | January 02, 2018
Though the agency said it tried to align with HIPAA as much as possible, the framework blocks info sharing despite care coordination benefits.
Compliance
By Jessica Davis | 12:36 pm | January 02, 2018
The legislation will also limit the number of opioids prescribed to patients for acute pain.
Privacy & Security
By Jessica Davis | 12:28 pm | December 28, 2017
While Longs Peak Family Practice was investigating a Nov. 5 ransomware attack, its infosec team discovered another hack into its system on Nov. 10.
Workforce
By Jessica Davis | 10:57 am | December 21, 2017
Females represented more than half of 2017’s enrollees, which might not translate to more health IT leaders yet – but it will mean more women involved in other critical hospital leadership roles.
Privacy & Security
By Jessica Davis | 05:26 pm | December 20, 2017
All of the company’s public-facing URLs redirected users to another site that threatened to release patient data if MEDHOST didn’t pay an extortion fee.
Privacy & Security
By Jessica Davis | 03:37 pm | December 20, 2017
The watchdog’s biggest concern was the agency’s identity and access management at four operating divisions in 2016.