News
See the following -
Healthcare Via Shipping Containers?
Why not? Being classified as prefabricated structures, containers avoid the regulatory hassles associated with floor area rules or land-use agreements that arise in setting up physical infrastructure. Minimalist in design, it can be transported through rail and used in the remotest corner of the country. Read More »
- Login to post comments
Healthcare's Big Problem With Little Data
Every year, the analyst firm Gartner publishes between 90 and 100 “Hype Cycles” with insight on about 1,900 different technologies. The Hype Cycle above is the one for Emerging Technologies for 2012 (published in August) and shows “Big Data” heading toward the “Peak of Inflated Expectations.” Read More »
- Login to post comments
HealthCare.gov And The Inevitably Digital Future Of American Governance
The Obamacare blame game is in full swing, and without other news to fill pages and airtime, it’s likely to continue for some time. Attention is shifting from the myriad problems with the official website HealthCare.gov, and toward the health plans that are being canceled, even though President Obama promised that they would not be. Read More »
- Login to post comments
Healthcare.gov Borrows Code, Leaves Out Copyright Notice
The newest coding problem with Healthcare,gov, the website for the federal Obamacare exchanges, isn’t exactly a glitch. Read More »
- Login to post comments
HealthCare.gov Can’t Handle Appeals Of Enrollment Errors
Tens of thousands of people who discovered that HealthCare.gov made mistakes as they were signing up for a health plan are confronting a new roadblock: The government cannot yet fix the errors. Read More »
- Login to post comments
HealthCare.gov Contractor Previously Jeopardized Personal Data Of 6 Million Medicare Beneficiaries
The contractor now responsible for stabilizing HealthCare.gov, under a separate, ongoing contract, endangered the private information of millions of entitlement program beneficiaries, according to federal investigators. Read More »
- Login to post comments
Healthcare.gov Crashes Again In The Middle Of Pivotal Congressional Oversight Hearing
The new health insurance marketplace Healthcare.gov went down again this morning, the latest hiccup in a month of technical problems. The timing could not have been worse for the administration: Health and Human Services secretary Kathleen Sebelius was in the middle of testifying before Congress. Read More »
- Login to post comments
HealthCare.gov Crashes For Congress, Risks Were Known And Other News
The rocky rollout of HealthCare.gov, the website for people to sign up for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, has garnered a lot of attention from the media as well as technology analysts. Here's our daily roundup of some of the key reports you may have missed... Read More »
- Login to post comments
HealthCare.gov Data Center Crashes
Republicans said Sunday they intend to press Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius on the Obama administration’s troubled launch of healthcare.gov, the online portal to buy insurance — even as the website suffered yet another setback. Read More »
- Login to post comments
Healthcare.gov Faced Security Risks, Feds Were Told
As HHS secretary Sebelius testified to Congress about the flawed rollout, a memo surfaced that predicted security risks due to inadequate testing. Read More »
- Login to post comments
Healthcare.gov Launch May Be Too Big To Succeed
What do you get when you design a website by committee? Something that looks a lot like Healthcare.gov, the home page for the federal online insurance exchange. The problems plaguing the site are not only a political black eye or godsend for whichever party is observing the fiasco, but also very much a technical lesson in how not to build such a large complex system. Read More »
- Login to post comments
Healthcare.gov May Be A 'Black Swan'
One in six IT projects face out of control costs, and bring much disruption, making them 'black swans' Read More »
- Login to post comments
HealthCare.gov Needs Less Tech, More Jugaad
Operators of the beleaguered HealthCare.gov website could take a few hints from Hindu lore and eastern philosophy to fix things, according to two of the architects of the world's most massive national ID system. Read More »
- Login to post comments
Healthcare.gov Relaunches, Prepares For ACA Open Enrollment
The Department of Health and Human Services re-launched its site aimed at providing customized insurance policy information to the public, some three months before the open enrollment period mandated by the Affordable Care Act. Currently, HealthCare.gov contains answers to frequently asked policy questions and a 24-hour call center. Read More »
- Login to post comments
HealthCare.gov Security Gaps Identified In Contractor Documents
A congressional watchdog investigating the troubled launch of the Obama administration’s online health insurance marketplace HealthCare.gov released a handful of contractors’ statements on Tuesday showing they were concerned about security vulnerabilities before and soon after the site launched. Read More »
- Login to post comments