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Not Just The Government’s Playbook

Mike Loukides | O'Reilly Radar | August 20, 2014

The 13 principles in the U.S. CIO's Digital Services Playbook are applicable for everyone...

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Obama Calls For IT Procurement Reform

Tom Shoop | Nextgov | November 5, 2013

President Obama on Monday called for an overhaul of the way the federal government purchases information technology in the wake of the troubled launch of the Healthcare.gov website. Read More »

Obama's Apology For A Tech Meltdown Is A Major Letdown

Ashlee Vance | Bloomberg | October 21, 2013

Back in June, the Atlantic wrote a gushing article about HealthCare.gov. The website was fast, clean, and built on the cheap. [...]. As most people now know, any good feelings around HealthCare.gov have evaporated. People trying to use the site to sign up for health care under the Affordable Care Act have met with an experience that even dial-up users circa 1995 would abhor... Read More »

ObamaCare A Bronze Trap For 1 In 4 Low-Income Insured

Jed Graham | Investors.com | May 22, 2014

In gauging whether ObamaCare exchange policies make health care reasonably affordable, federal enrollment data have been little help.  They've offered no clarity on a key metric: the type of policies that households with modest incomes are buying...

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Obamacare Contractors Were Big Campaign Donors

Joseph Marks | Nextgov | October 10, 2013

The list of contractors that helped implement the White House’s landmark health care reform law includes a who’s-who of top-tier political donors, according to a review by the Sunlight Foundation transparency group. Read More »

Obamacare Enrollment Company Fumbles Client Data

Sophie Novack | Nextgov | February 4, 2014

In a slipup to stoke Republicans' Obamacare security concerns, Enroll Alaska accidentally released email addresses of about 300 clients Monday afternoon. Read More »

Obamacare Site Flaws Due To More Than ‘Talent Gap’

Dustin Volz | Nextgov | October 23, 2013

As Congress begins investigating the rocky rollout of HealthCare.gov, technology experts warn that it may not find any easy scapegoats. Read More »

Obamacare Website For Spanish Speakers Has Problems, Too

Clara Ritger | Nextgov | October 22, 2013

Lost in the hubbub surrounding the malfunctioning HealthCare.gov is another missed deadline and closed door for millions of Americans seeking health insurance: Cuidado­DeSalud.gov. Read More »

Obamacare Website Has Cost $840 Million

Sam Baker | Nextgov.com | July 30, 2014

The Obama administration has spent roughly $840 million on HealthCare.gov, including more than $150 million just in cost overruns for the version that failed so badly when it launched last year...

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Obamacare Website Source Code: 'No Reasonable Expectation of Privacy'

Jeryl Bier | www.theweeklystandard.com | October 14, 2013

The launch of federal government's Obamacare insurance exchange, Healthcare.gov, has been plagued with delays, errors, and poor website design, even prompting USA Today to call it an "inexcusable mess" and a "nightmare".  Now comes another example of why the website's reputation is in tatters.  Buried in the source code of Healthcare.gov is this sentence that could prove embarrassing: "You have no reasonable expectation of privacy regarding any communication or data transiting or stored on this information system."

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Obamacare Website Violates Licensing Agreement For Copyrighted Software

Jeryl Bier | The Weekly Standard | October 17, 2013

Healthcare.gov, the federal government's Obamacare website, has been under heavy criticism from friend and foe alike during its first two weeks of open enrollment.  Repeated errors and delays have prevented many users from even establishing an account, and outside web designers have roundly panned the structure and coding of the site as amateurish and sloppy... Read More »

Obamacare, Failing Ahead Of Schedule

Ross Douthat | New York Times | October 19, 2013

THIS is not the column about the Obamacare rollout I expected to write. [... For now there is a more pressing subject: The online federal health care exchange, the heart of the Obamacare project, is such a rolling catastrophe that it may end up creating a major policy fiasco immediately rather than eventually. Read More »

Obamacare’s Open Source Project Lives On — Even After White House Kills It

Robert McMillan | Wired | October 22, 2013

Months before the ill fated launch of Healthcare.gov — the website built to give millions of Americans access to affordable health care — government officials were already describing it as something special. Read More »

Officials Aren’t Counting The Growing Cost Of Online Obamacare Fraud

Aliya Sternstain | Nextgov | October 24, 2013

Don't ask the federal government how much money citizens are losing to Obamacare Internet scams. Tracking the dollars stolen through fake exchanges and other sites that prey on insurance applicants apparently is not under the administration's jurisdiction. Read More »

ONC Delays Launch Of Blue Button Connector Until Late February

Neil Versel | MobiHealthNews | January 15, 2014

The US Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) for Health IT is slowing its rollout launch of a website meant to encourage patients to take a more active role in their own care. Read More »