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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 | 10:24 am | December 14, 2016
Vice President Biden joined the president in signing the bill, which passed through Congress with overwhelming approval.
By Jessica Davis | 11:48 am | December 13, 2016
Hackers gained access through the company’s MyQuest by Care360 app on Nov. 26.
By Jessica Davis | 12:03 pm | December 12, 2016
Xcertia will will employ feedback from members to improve clinical content, usability, privacy, security, interoperability and efficacy of data.
By Jessica Davis | 02:24 pm | December 09, 2016
The National Institutes of Health is challenging biotech researchers to build a wearable device that can measure blood alcohol in real-time, and it will offer funding for researchers who find out how to better use electronic health record data for alcohol treatment.
By Jessica Davis | 10:55 am | December 09, 2016
After his organization lost health data, Micky Tripathi discovered some hard lessons to breach reporting and recovery.
By Jessica Davis | 03:29 pm | December 07, 2016
Hackers are getting in at the user level, but by using software-defined networking, organizations can reduce the amount of exposed information.
By Jessica Davis | 10:50 am | December 07, 2016
When it comes to medical device security, the greatest challenge is equipment is running on outdated systems. The issue then becomes how to protect the data and determine whether the equipment is safe to operate.
By Jessica Davis | 03:51 pm | December 06, 2016
Among the items in the ‘security graveyard,’ Intermountain CISO Karl West included flat networks, SOC-less security and compliance-only security.
By Jessica Davis | 09:48 am | December 06, 2016
Executives at Christiana and Penn Medicine have become advocates for security work. IT professionals shed light on what made that transformation work.
By Jessica Davis | 01:46 pm | December 05, 2016
Healthcare tops the list for ‘losing stuff’ and the ratio of incidents to breaches, Joel Brenner said Monday during the HIMSS Privacy & Security Forum in Boston.