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Could Obama's Campaign Tech Gurus Fix Healthcare.gov? Let's Ask 'Em!

Tim Murphy | Mother Jones | October 24, 2013

The president's reelection team never had to tackle a project this big—or federal procurement rules... Read More »

Front-End HealthCare.gov Problems May Be Masking Bigger Back-End Problems

Sam Baker | Nextgov | October 25, 2013

By now, pretty much everyone knows that HealthCare.gov, the main portal to access the law's new insurance exchanges, doesn't work. When the site first launched, hardly anyone could create an account to begin shopping for coverage. And though the registration problems have gotten better, enrollment is still an uphill climb. Read More »

Health Exchange Website Failures Were Both Predicted And Predictable

Katherine McIntire Peters | Nextgov | October 10, 2013

Who knew it could be so difficult to build an effective, user-friendly website capable of efficiently serving up complex information for millions of users? Quite a few people, actually. And that’s why the Obama administration’s bungling of the most public aspect of its signature policy initiative is so baffling. [...] Read More »

Health-care Web site’s lead contractor employs executives from troubled IT company

Jerry Markon and Alice Crites | The Washington Post | November 15, 2013

The lead contractor on the dysfunctional Web site for the Affordable Care Act is filled with executives from a company that mishandled at least 20 other government IT projects, including a flawed effort to automate retirement benefits for millions of federal workers, documents and interviews show.

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Officials Spent Just Two Weeks Testing HealthCare.gov Prior To Launching It

Joseph Marks | Nextgov | October 24, 2013

Contractors that helped develop the Obama Administration’s troubled online health insurance marketplace HealthCare.gov told lawmakers on Thursday they wish they’d had more time to test the site before launch but denied any ongoing problems with their portions of the site. Read More »

Why The Experts Are Probably Wrong About The Healthcare.gov Crack-Up

John Pavley | Huffington Post | October 7, 2013

Many technology experts are blaming the software behind Healthcare.gov for all the problems Americans have encountered while trying to sign up for health insurance in accordance with the Affordable Care Act. Read More »

106,185 Americans selected health plans in first reporting period of open enrollment

Press Release | HHS.Gov | November 13, 2013

Affordable Care Act (ACA) - 106,185 Americans selected health plans in first reporting period of open enrollment and 975,407 customers went through the process but have not yet selected a plan; an additional 396,261 assessed or determined eligible for Medicaid or CHIP. Read More »

6 IT Outsourcing Lessons Learned From Healthcare.gov's Troubled Launch

Stephanie Overby | CIO.com | October 15, 2013

The federal government's recent launch of Healthcare.gov is a stunning example of outsourced IT gone wrong. The multi-contractor project has been riddled with issues and should serve as a reminder to any IT outsourcing customer regarding steps to take to ensure a smooth rollout. Read More »

A Better Model For HealthCare.gov Is Weather.gov

Patrick Thibodeau | Computerworld | October 27, 2013

Instead of beating up the government for its HealthCare.gov rollout, let’s look at what the U.S. gets right. It excels at providing data to businesses, individuals, application developers, researchers, or anyone with a need for it. Read More »

A Bleak First Week: 99.6% Of Healthcare.gov Visitors Did NOT Enroll In Obamacare

Matt Pace | Compete | October 15, 2013

Since October 1st, Americans living in the 50 states and Washington, D.C. can purchase healthcare through exchanges as part of the Affordable Care Act [...]. Little information has been made available by the administration on the level of interest these exchanges have received or more importantly the number of consumers who actually enrolled, although the rollout has been plagued with widespread reports of system outages and bugs. Read More »

A Call to Action For IT Leaders

Kris van Riper and Lon Zanetta | Nextgov | March 4, 2014

Following the failed launch of HealthCare.gov, President Obama stated, "The way the federal government does procurement and does IT is just generally not very efficient. In fact, there's probably no bigger gap between the private sector and the public sector than IT." Read More »

A Small Paper Problem: The Health Exchanges Face An Avalanche Of Paper Applications

Charles Ornstein | The Health Care Blog | December 12, 2013

When HealthCare.gov and some state-run insurance marketplaces ran into trouble with their websites in October and November, they urged consumers to submit paper applications for coverage. Read More »

A Tale Of Two IT Procurements

David Blumenthal | The Health Care Blog | November 24, 2013

Recently, the President of the United States, the most powerful person on earth, the man whose finger rests on the nuclear button, struck a bold blow for . . . procurement reform? Read More »

About 25 Percent Of HealthCare.gov Applications Have Errors

Grant Gross | Computerworld | December 6, 2013

An estimated one in four user applications sent from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' HealthCare.gov to insurance providers have errors introduced by the website, including missing applications, an official with the agency said Friday. Read More »

Affordable Care Act (ACA) Web Site: Too Much Help Will Slow The Project

Bill Conerly | Forbes | October 21, 2013

What’s the problem with ObamaCare? Recent technical problems call that question to mind, but the answer is not what you may be thinking. Read More »