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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.

By Jessica Davis | 12:31 pm | April 13, 2017
The agency filed two RFIs late Tuesday asking industry leaders about commercial software-as-service options and how to modernize VistA by stitching together multiple platforms.
By Jessica Davis | 11:58 am | April 13, 2017
Agency launches new website that allows veterans to find and compare care quality at clinics in the area, while viewing real-time data on wait times.
By Jessica Davis | 03:39 pm | April 11, 2017
Echoing sentiments from LGBT groups made when the OCR director was hired in March, a group of Democratic Senators is denouncing the appointment.
By Jessica Davis | 03:09 pm | April 10, 2017
Philadelphia ransomware is part of a highly targeted spear-phishing campaign that may signify more ransomware-as-service campaigns are on the horizon.
By Jessica Davis | 12:38 pm | April 10, 2017
The biotech mogul gave about $15 million to Phoenix Children’s Hospital fund that included millions in deals that benefited his for-profit companies.
By Jessica Davis | 05:02 pm | April 07, 2017
A failed contract to build a customer database for HealthNow Networks, left personal health information exposed online for months, according to an investigation by ZDNet and DataBreaches.net.
By Jessica Davis | 02:36 pm | April 07, 2017
If passed, the law would help small- and medium-sized healthcare providers that often have constrained security budgets.
By Jessica Davis | 01:30 pm | April 07, 2017
Lengthy visits to the redesigned exhibition space showed healthcare decision-makers' interest in more seamless, standards-based data exchange.
By Jessica Davis | 04:28 pm | April 06, 2017
An Acting Assistant Secretary for Financial Resources experienced in helping healthcare organizations manage transitions and others have quietly joined HHS. 
By Jessica Davis | 05:36 pm | April 05, 2017
ABCD Children’s Pediatrics also discovered other evidence of hackers on the network, which included suspicious user accounts.