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Programmers Volunteer To Help Fix Government’s Healthcare Website

S.E. Smith | Care2 | October 29, 2013

If there’s one thing programmers hate, it’s a broken website paired with a terrible user experience. It runs contrary to everything geeks, nerds and their ilk believe in, and often, their first instinct is to probe into the code, see what’s wrong and propose a suggestion. Read More »

Researchers Find A Way To Hack Spanish Language HealthCare.gov

Aliya Sternstein | Nextgov | October 30, 2013

Until fixed on Wednesday afternoon, a security flaw in CuidadoDeSalud.gov -- the Spanish language version of HealthCare.gov -- could have allowed hackers to steal personal information from enrollees as they typed, according to three independent software developers. The Health and Human Services Department repaired the software error after Nextgov inquired about the defect early Wednesday. Read More »

Security Hole In Healthcare.gov Exposed User Email Addresses

Russell Brandom | The Verge | October 30, 2013

Healthcare.gov has been racked with technical problems since the site's launch, but a new vulnerability may have unintentionally exposed users... Read More »

Shortened Bidding Process Limited Obamacare Contractor Options

Sophie Novack | Nextgov | November 4, 2013

The Oct. 1 deadline to launch HealthCare.gov made the Obama administration use an accelerated bidding system that limited the choice of contractors to only four companies, Bloomberg reports. Read More »

Tech Experts: Health Exchange Site Needs Total Overhaul

Kelly Kennedy | USA Today | October 17, 2013

The federal health care exchange was built using 10-year-old technology that may require constant fixes and updates for the next six months and the eventual overhaul of the entire system, technology experts told USA TODAY. Read More »

Tech Surge Aims To Fix What Ails HealthCare.gov Site

Nancy Owano | Top Tech News | November 1, 2013

After a month of haunting outages and outrage from disgruntled former supporters, the folks at HealthCare.gov -- the so-called Obamacare website -- are in need of a quick and serious fix. Oracle chief Larry Ellison said his company is pitching in to help fix what ails the government's health care Web site, shooting for improvement by November's end. Read More »

The Health Care Website Is Not Like Facebook

Marina Koren | Nextgov | October 25, 2013

When questioning executives of the contractor behind the problem-plagued health care website during a House hearing Thursday, Rep. Steve Scalise brought up a popular, user-friendly site for comparison. Read More »

The Healthcare.gov Fiasco

Staff Writer | Department of Better Technology (DOBT) | October 7, 2013

It’s been a week since Healthcare.gov launched, and for anyone who has tried to register for new health insurance on the website, its online waiting room page is perhaps the most recognizable page on the site... Read More »

The One Disheartening Number That Suggests Healthcare.gov Will Not Be Fixed Anytime Soon

Will Oremus | Slate | October 21, 2013

We all know by now that healthcare.gov is an utter mess. The next question: How long will it take to fix? The New York Times this weekend had a pretty dispiriting answer... Read More »

There's No Simple Fix To HealthCare.gov

Brian Proffitt | ReadWrite | October 25, 2013

Despite what some pundits and vendors are saying, there is no one fix for the Affordable Care Act's flagship website. Read More »

Verizon Will Be Part Of The Healthcare.gov 'Tech Surge'

Arit John | The Atlantic Wire | October 22, 2013

Verizon will be part of the Healthcare.gov "tech surge" that President Obama explained on Monday. The company's Enterprise Solutions division has been brought in to improve the site's performance, an anonymous source told USA Today. Read More »

Want Healthcare.gov To Work? Destroy And Rebuild Federal IT Procurement

Veronica Combs | MedCity News | October 27, 2013

The conversation started the first week after healthcare.gov launched. Maybe the problem was federal procurement, not Obamacare. Read More »

We Paid Over $500 Million For The Obamacare Sites And All We Got Was This Lousy 404 [Updated]

Andrew Couts | Digital Trends | October 8, 2013

It’s been one full week since the flagship technology portion of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) went live. And since that time, the befuddled beast that is Healthcare.gov has shutdown, crapped out, stalled, and mis-loaded so consistently that its track record for failure is challenged only by Congress. Read More »

What Government Services Will Look Like In 2020

Brittany Ballenstedt | Nextgov | November 5, 2013

With the government’s botched rollout of HealthCare.gov, it may be difficult to imagine a future where federal agencies effectively leverage technology to better serve the American public. Yet a vast majority of public-facing government employees believe that by 2020, technology will make that vision a reality. Read More »

Why Delaying Obamacare Has Insurers Freaking Out

Sam Baker | Nextgov | October 31, 2013

The health insurance industry already had plenty to freak out about with the implementation of the Affordable Care Act. Simply complying with the law is a massive undertaking, never mind the terrible HealthCare.gov debut. But the botched rollout has produced a new source of anxiety for insurers: the growing bipartisan support for delaying parts of the act’s implementation. Read More »