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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 | 05:18 pm | March 07, 2017
Brand New Day, a Medicare-approved health plan, is notifying 14,005 patients of a potential breach of electronic protected health information after an unauthorized access through a third-party vendor system.
By Jessica Davis | 11:34 am | March 07, 2017
The report claims the biotech mogul used charitable donations to benefit his health tech company.
By Jessica Davis | 12:22 pm | March 06, 2017
An employee made a typo in the command input, which took several servers offline for about four hours on Feb. 28.
By Jessica Davis | 02:27 pm | March 03, 2017
The master keys for the ransomware strain Dharma – a Crysis variant – were released on the security website BleepingComputer on March 1.
By Jessica Davis | 02:01 pm | March 02, 2017
While the number of flaws has decreased from year to year, HHS still needs to work on identity and access management, security training and incident response, among other areas.
By Jessica Davis | 02:29 pm | March 01, 2017
The telemonitoring program of the Visiting Nurse Association of Chittenden and Grand Isle Counties and Central Vermont Home Health & Hospice are now connected with the state's HIE.
By Jessica Davis | 05:22 pm | February 28, 2017
On Feb. 28, Amazon's S3 cloud-based service experienced outages that caused a number of major websites and apps – including many across healthcare – to stop working optimally.
By Jessica Davis | 02:47 pm | February 28, 2017
Social media expert Melody Smith Jones explains what organizations need to do to benefit providers and convert unknown patients into new consumers of healthcare services.
By Jessica Davis | 12:03 pm | February 28, 2017
Currently, 60 percent of healthcare organizations worldwide have introduced IoT into their facilities, with nearly two-thirds of those using it for monitoring and maintenance.
By Jessica Davis | 02:09 pm | February 21, 2017
Hospitals have recognized the need to fix flaws in connected devices but solutions will require a sustained effort.