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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.

Electronic Health Records
By Jessica Davis | 09:48 am | November 27, 2017
Although many organizations claim interoperability is a major focus, progress is slow, at best. For HL7 CEO Charles Jaffe, the reason is a lack of financial reward, as for-profit vendors can’t be expected to “connect everyone on their own dime.”
Analytics
By Jessica Davis | 03:35 pm | November 22, 2017
AWS will be working with the healthcare tech giant on its HealtheIntent platform to analyze clinical data and predict available treatment.
Privacy & Security
By Jessica Davis | 01:22 pm | November 22, 2017
Hacking incidents caused the majority of healthcare breaches in October, but insider errors impacted an even greater amount of patient records, according to the Protenus Breach Barometer.
Telehealth
By Jessica Davis | 02:01 pm | November 20, 2017
The increase in the use of telehealth in the healthcare sector have prompted the HHS watchdog to evaluate compliance with reimbursement requirements.
Privacy & Security
By Jessica Davis | 01:29 pm | November 20, 2017
Congressman says BOMs included with every device will help organizations assess threats and give transparency with managing system vulnerabilities.
By Jessica Davis | 02:42 pm | November 17, 2017
As established by the 21st Century Cures Act, the committee is tasked with creating policies, standards, implementation specifications and certification criteria for health technology.
Compliance
By Jessica Davis | 11:56 am | November 17, 2017
The class action lawsuit filed Thursday by the estate of a cancer patient, claimed he was unable to determine when cancer symptoms began due to the EHR vendor’s faulty software.
Privacy & Security
By Jessica Davis | 05:34 pm | November 16, 2017
A Ponemon Institute report predicts 35 percent of cyberattacks to be fileless in 2018, and these attacks are nearly 10 times more likely to succeed than file-based attacks.
Compliance
By Jessica Davis | 03:09 pm | November 15, 2017
HHS is accused of retaliating against two of its cybersecurity leaders for speaking with the committee.
By Jessica Davis | 02:27 pm | November 15, 2017
The agency wants to jump onto the current success of DoD’s similar Cerner roll outs in the Pacific Northwest and needs the funds now to avoid driving up the project’s cost down the line.