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If No One's To Blame For Healthcare.gov Glitches, Then Maybe Everyone Is

Jaikumar Vijayan | Computerworld | October 24, 2013

After listening to over three hours of testimony in Congress from some of the contractors behind the Obamacare Healthcare.gov site, one thing has become abundantly clear: No vendor is responsible for the problems that have plagued the health exchange since its launch nearly a month ago. Read More »

In North Dakota, 30 People Sign Up For Obamacare And 35,000 Lose Health Insurance

Daniel Halper | Weekly Standard | November 10, 2013

In North Dakota, only 30 people have so far signed up for Obamacare. Meanwhile, 35,000 people have already or will be losing their existing health insurance plans in that state alone. WDAY reports: Read More »

Information Asymmetry – The Politics Of Health IT Policy

Adrian Gropper | The Health Care Blog | November 9, 2013

Let’s recognize Healthcare.gov as the dawn of mass patient engagement – and applaud it. Before this website, patients were along for the ride. Employers choose most of the insurance benefits, hospital web portals are an afterthought, and getting anything done with an insurance company, for both doctors and patients, means a phone call and paper. [...] Read More »

Inside Obama's Stealth Startup

Jon Gertner | Fast Company | June 15, 2015

The new hub of Washington’s tech insurgency is something known as the U.S. Digital Service, which is headquartered in a stately brick townhouse half a block from the White House. USDS -employees tend to congregate with their laptops at a long table at the back half of the parlor floor. If there’s no room, they retreat downstairs to a low-ceilinged basement, sprawling on cushioned chairs. Apart from an air-hockey table, there aren’t many physical reminders of West Coast startup culture—a lot of the new techies are issued BlackBerrys, which seems to cause them near-physical pain...

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Insurance Policies Are Canceled In New Hurdle For Obamacare

Alex Nussbaum | SF Gate | October 29, 2013

The Obamacare rollout is leading to the cancellation of hundreds of thousands of health insurance plans nationwide, contradicting President Barack Obama’s repeated pledge that people who like their coverage can keep it. Read More »

Insurers Getting Faulty Data From U.S. Health Exchanges

Drew Armstrong and Alex Nussbaum | Bloomberg | October 8, 2013

Insurers are getting faulty and incomplete data from the new U.S.-run health exchange, which may mean some Americans won’t be covered even after they sign up for an insurance plan. Read More »

Insurers Worry About Big Gaps In Obamacare Site

Sam Baker | Nextgov | December 3, 2013

Insurance companies are still waiting for key parts of HealthCare.gov to be built—and still having trouble with the parts that are in place. Read More »

Is Health Insurance Itself the Problem with the System?

By Kim Bellard | January 6, 2016

I worked in the health insurance industry for a long time.  I helped introduce consumer-driven/high deductible plans to help foster cost-awareness.  I bought into the protection-against-big-expenses meme.  I personally have never not had health insurance.  So, by most standards, I should be biased in its favor.  But I'm beginning to wonder if health insurance itself is the problem, or at least a big part of the problem. I've written before about some of the new entrants into health insurance; more power to them, and the more the merrier.  What I continue to be disappointed by is that we're not really seeing fundamentally new approaches to what health insurance is.

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Is Obamacare’s ‘Tech Surge’ Real?

Ezra Klein | Washington Post | October 23, 2013

On Sunday, the Department of Health and Human Services announced a major "tech surge" to save the health-care exchanges. "Our team is bringing in some of the best and brightest from both inside and outside government to scrub in with the team and help improve HealthCare.gov," they promised. Read More »

Is Open Source Software The Answer to Oregon's IT Problems?

Dave Miller | OPB | March 11, 2014

When Oregon’s new Chief Information Officer, Alex Pettit,was on our show recently, we asked him what stood out from his move from Oklahoma to the northwest.

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Is This A Different Kind of HealthCare.gov Contract?

Rebecca Carroll | Nextgov.com | August 1, 2014

A few days before a report reamed Obamacare officials for poor contracting practices, the government announced another cloud computing procurement for HealthCare.gov -- this one based on lessons learned, it said...

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Issa Demands Details On HealthCare.gov Fix

Joseph Marks | Nextgov | October 23, 2013

A top House Republican critic of the Obama administration’s rocky HealthCare.gov rollout wants more information about how the government plans to fix the glitch-ridden online insurance exchange. Read More »

IT Pros Call Out Healthcare.gov For Lack Of Cloud Computing Prowess

Beth Pariseau | SearchCloudComputing | October 17, 2013

IT industry experts said the launch of Healthcare.gov this month was hobbled by a byzantine, "old-school" infrastructure. Could cloud computing have solved the site's performance problems? Read More »

IT Reform Should Focus More On The Outcomes Than Tactics, Vanroekel Says

Rebecca Carroll | Nextgov.com | May 8, 2014

With information technology evolving faster than laws governing federal contracting, legislation to reform how government buys and builds IT should focus more on results than on specific methods of achieving them, the federal chief information officer told lawmakers Thursday.

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It's Official: White House CTO Todd Park Leaves Post To Recruit Tech Talent From Silicon Valley

Rebecca Carroll | Nextgov.com | August 28, 2014

Todd Park is leaving his job as the second-ever federal chief technology officer to assume new duties -- including recruiting tech talent for government -- from California, the White House confirmed Thursday...

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