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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 | 04:44 pm | August 11, 2016
Ponemon’s 2016 Global Visual Hacking Experiment found it takes less than 15 minutes to complete an initial hack by actually eyeballing certain types of information and such attempts were successful 91 percent of the time.
By Jessica Davis | 12:04 pm | August 11, 2016
The democratic nominee urged Congress to return and hammer out a new compromise as ZIka cases rise to 121 infected people.
By Jessica Davis | 04:38 pm | August 10, 2016
The Reston, Virginia provider said patient protected health information and financial data was compromised by unauthorized third parties outside of the U.S.
By Jessica Davis | 11:52 am | August 10, 2016
The 2016 MGMA Cost and Revenue Report also found technology costs have increased 40 percent from 2009 to 2015, corresponding with the 2009 HITECH Act.
By Jessica Davis | 02:57 pm | August 09, 2016
The latest version of the platform simultaneously connects medical specialists to patients and caregivers and a new service will translate between people speaking different languages.
By Jessica Davis | 11:30 am | August 09, 2016
The university aims to make genetic testing a regular part of healthcare using Google's Cloud Platform and informatics.
By Jessica Davis | 12:30 pm | August 08, 2016
Newkirk Products, which provides ID cards for health insurance plans, reported an unauthorized access to a server containing member information.
By Jessica Davis | 04:22 pm | August 04, 2016
OCR found the Illinois-based health system failed to conduct a thorough risk assessment and limit physical access to electronic health systems, among other infractions.
By Jessica Davis | 11:59 am | August 03, 2016
Using real-time data from its provider customers, athenahealth has identified more than 5,000 Florida patients currently at-risk of becoming infected by the Zika virus, the company announced today.
By Jessica Davis | 05:45 pm | August 02, 2016
A Ukrainian hacker claimed the attack on Twitter, including a screenshot of patient names, addresses, dates of birth and diagnoses.