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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 | 05:22 pm | April 05, 2017
The former FDA Deputy Commissioner under George W. Bush also vowed to maintain the FDA’s gold standard on research and development. Democrats, however, were skeptical about his ability to withstand political pressure from President Trump.
By Jessica Davis | 12:51 pm | April 05, 2017
More than a third of the 1,798 breaches discovered in 2016 affected either large hospitals or academic medical centers, a JAMA report found.
By Jessica Davis | 09:08 am | April 05, 2017
As threats continue to plague the healthcare industry, Congress needs to financially support industries willing to share threat data, group says.
By Jessica Davis | 02:11 pm | April 04, 2017
According to the media company’s lawyers, the biotech billionaire told Tronc leaders that they had to invest in his company to secure his own financial backing.
By Jessica Davis | 04:36 pm | April 03, 2017
VA has struggled to correct IT and scheduling issues for years, and it looks like those problems have landed on the chief son-in-law’s desk.
By Jessica Davis | 12:08 pm | April 03, 2017
The hacker group APT 28 - responsible for leaking data on Olympic athletes in 2016 - stole confidential medical data of athletes that appear to have been removed from IAAF’s server.
By Jessica Davis | 02:37 pm | March 31, 2017
Lack of sales from its GPC Cancer diagnostic test dragged down finances as the company continues to face public scrutiny.
By Jessica Davis | 12:37 pm | March 31, 2017
Washington University School of Medicine employee responded to a phishing attempt masked as a legitimate request in December, but medical school officials didn’t learn of the incident for seven weeks.
By Jessica Davis | 04:29 pm | March 29, 2017
The agency currently uses a dozen approved cloud service providers.
By Jessica Davis | 01:02 pm | March 29, 2017
The self-extracting variant, which links to a Dropbox account run by hackers, will shut down when certain programs are found on the system.