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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 | May 31, 2016
Nearly two years after implementing workforce analytics, Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital has saved more than $10 million on costs by addressing staff issues and increasing employee engagement.
By Jessica Davis | 12:18 pm | May 26, 2016
The document outlines eight guidelines for achieving precision medicine principles, including a ‘participant-first’ system.
By Jessica Davis | 08:24 am | May 26, 2016
Much the way consumer analytics fundamentally improved how products and services are sold, healthcare analytics will one day change the way providers deliver care. But Sriram Vishwanath contends that a lot has to happen before that day comes.
By Jessica Davis | 04:19 pm | May 25, 2016
Part of the Helping Hospitals Improve patient Care Act, the amendment also exempts ambulatory surgical centers from MIPS through 2017 and 2018.
By Jessica Davis | 11:54 am | May 24, 2016
The public platform, DTSec, contains a set of security performance requirements to prevent cyberattacks and data breaches.
By Jessica Davis | 12:08 pm | May 23, 2016
Iowa- and Illinois-based Genesis Health Systems has joined forces with visibility and analytics provider, STANLEY Healthcare, and nurse call platform provider, Critical Alert, to streamline clinical workflows using STANLEY'S RTLS platform and Critical Alert's Nurse Call tool, the companies announced last week.
By Jessica Davis | 12:00 pm | May 19, 2016
The number of chief nursing informatics officers has increased in health systems over the past five years, with more designated CNIO-positions than ever before.
By Jessica Davis | 11:14 am | May 17, 2016
The CERT Division of Carnegie Mellon's Software Engineering Institute has released its list of 10 technologies emerging in the next five years with the greatest vulnerabilities in terms of cybersecurity, finance, personal health and safety.
By Jessica Davis | 12:34 pm | May 16, 2016
Aurora, Colorado-based UCHealth has partnered again with LeanTaaS, a Silicon Valley-based predictive analytics startup.
By Jessica Davis | 10:37 am | May 13, 2016
IBM plans to launch a cloud-based version of Watson's cognitive computing technology, designed solely to zero in on cybersecurity language, as a part of a year-long research project, the company announced Tuesday.