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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 | 12:27 pm | October 10, 2016
Rate of attacks has steadily increased since 2015 across all industries; healthcare holds third place with 3.5 percent of organizations experiencing an attack.
By Jessica Davis | 08:03 am | October 06, 2016
The company claims to be the first scanner manufacturer to offer third-party certification that its products are interoperable.
By Jessica Davis | 12:08 pm | October 05, 2016
New Jersey Spine Center was attacked by Cryptowall, which locked up its EHR, backups and phone system. Marin Healthcare District in California lost two weeks of backup data during restoration.
By Jessica Davis | 02:59 pm | October 04, 2016
Oxford, Mississippi-based Urgent Care Clinic of Oxford reported it was a victim of a ransomware attack, which appears to have been initiated by Russian hackers.
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By Jessica Davis | 05:02 pm | September 30, 2016
One of the largest healthcare providers in Hawaii, it's only the second two-time winner of the Enterprise Davies Award since the inception of the program in 1994.
By Jessica Davis | 12:23 pm | September 30, 2016
While the ransomware has been active for two years, Netskope researchers say its new strain leverages users syncing and sharing data to spread infected files through the network.
By Jessica Davis | 05:29 pm | September 29, 2016
On Wednesday, Congress approved $1.
By Jessica Davis | 01:25 pm | September 28, 2016
In response to the Zika outbreak, University of Arizona's College of Public health researchers and the UA Bio Computing Facility have released a crowd-sourcing mobile app to track the disease and help detect outbreaks.
By Jessica Davis | 06:07 pm | September 27, 2016
The goal of the program is to reduce the number of missed care visits for low-income, disabled or elderly patients.
By Jessica Davis | 12:35 pm | September 27, 2016
It also neglects to cover all the elements from the NIST Cybersecurity Framework, according to the new report, which offers five suggestions for protecting electronic health information.