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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 | 10:57 am | June 09, 2016
Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC was the first pediatric hospital in the U.
By Jessica Davis | 10:54 am | June 09, 2016
Harnessing analytics has led to big gains for Maine-based health system to dramatically reduce readmissions, identify high-risk patients and utilize real-time data.
By Jessica Davis | 10:41 am | June 09, 2016
There are two major roadblocks for analytics in healthcare, says Sriram Vishwanath, professor of engineering and data science at University of Texas, Austin.
By Jessica Davis | 10:16 am | June 09, 2016
Fewer than half of healthcare organizations participating in a recent survey are currently using C&BI tools. But HIMSS Analytics anticipates that the shift to value-based care and advances in predictive and prescriptive analytics technologies could change that in the near-term.
By Jessica Davis | 05:54 pm | June 08, 2016
The research and advocacy group is calling upon data scientists and computational analysts to leverage its database to expand understanding of the disease.
By Jessica Davis | 05:39 pm | June 07, 2016
The pediatric endocrinologist at Stanford University's Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital is known for his HealthKit pilot study on Type 1 diabetes patients.
By Jessica Davis | 12:18 pm | June 07, 2016
Vice President Joe Biden unveiled the precision medicine database on Monday, speaking at its operations center at the University of Chicago. Genomic Data Commons is a National Cancer Institute initiative and is central to the National Cancer Moonshot and Precision Medicine Initiative.
By Jessica Davis | 12:08 pm | June 03, 2016
Tribune officials said that partnering with Soon-Shiong will give them access to patents for machine vision and artificial intelligence to transform the publishing company. 
By Jessica Davis | 03:42 pm | June 02, 2016
A surge of recent developments – the rise in apps for care management and wellness, advances in research data, precision medicine gains – is placing a great responsibility on healthcare leaders to break down data silos to simplify data sharing among providers. And consumers, too.
By Jessica Davis | 12:06 pm | June 01, 2016
During the "Future of Innovation" session at ONC's Annual meeting on May 31, three of the health IT industry's top leaders discussed the current interoperability landscape, offering perspectives on how it's evolving and assessing its potential.