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Healthcare.gov Crashes Again In The Middle Of Pivotal Congressional Oversight Hearing

Adrianne Jeffries | The Verge | October 30, 2013

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 »

HealthCare.gov Crashes For Congress, Risks Were Known And Other News

Staff Writer | Nextgov | October 30, 2013

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 »

HealthCare.gov error rates going down, consultant says

Grant Gross | ComputerWorld | November 15, 2013

The technology team working on the troubled HealthCare.gov has made significant progress in recent days, with error rates on the U.S. government's health insurance shopping site down to less than 1% from 6%  just after its launch, officials said Friday. Read More »

HealthCare.gov Gets A Redesign For Obamacare Enrollments 1st Birthday

Rebecca Carroll | Nextgov.com | June 6, 2014

HealthCare.gov is getting a makeover ahead of open season in November, when residents of 36 states may use the site to acquire or change their health care plans...

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Healthcare.gov Launch May Be Too Big To Succeed

Brian Proffitt | ReadWrite | October 21, 2013

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 »

Healthcare.gov May Be A 'Black Swan'

Patrick Thibodeau | Computerworld | October 25, 2013

One in six IT projects face out of control costs, and bring much disruption, making them 'black swans' Read More »

HealthCare.gov Official: Expect Glitches In November

Rebecca Carroll | Nextgov.com | July 31, 2014

There will be hiccups, but the federal online marketplace for health insurance plans is in a far better position to handle the open enrollment period that begins Nov. 15, a top official said Thursday...

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Healthcare.gov Relaunches, Prepares For ACA Open Enrollment

Reid Davenport | FCW | June 24, 2013

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 »

HealthCare.gov Security Gaps Identified In Contractor Documents

Joseph Marks | Nextgov | December 17, 2013

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 »

HealthCare.Gov Was Originally Built In A Garage

Sarah Kliff | The Washington Post | October 9, 2013

You  may be surprised to learn that when you arrive at HealthCare.Gov the first page you see on the Web site was not built in a bland office park somewhere in Virginia. It was built in the District of Columbia. By a team of 12 engineers. Their offices are in a garage, and they wanted to use the site to buy themselves health insurance in 2014. Read More »

Healthcare.gov: Code Developed By The People And For The People, Released Back To The People

Alex Howard | The Atlantic | June 28, 2013

This new flagship federal .gov website is "open by design, open by default." That's a huge win for the American people. Read More »

HealthCare.gov: Technology Failures Are Government Failures

Joseph Marks | Nextgov | October 22, 2013

Is HealthCare.gov synonymous with the Affordable Care Act, President Obama’s landmark health care reform law? Or at least with the health insurance marketplaces that act introduced and that launched Oct. 1? Read More »

HealthCare.gov’s Early Flaws Revealed, 1 Glitch Fixed, Blame The Contractors And Other News

Staff Writer | Nextgov | October 29, 2013

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 »

Here's How Millennials Could Change Health Care

Jason Hidalgo | Reno Gazette-Journal | February 7, 2016

With a presidential election fast approaching, healthcare is an issue that’s getting plenty of traction on both sides of the political aisle. For Republicans, taking down President Obama’s signature Affordable Care Act remains a red meat issue. Republican presidential candidates are also trotting out an ACA repeal as a key incentive for voting a member of the party into the Oval Office. Healthcare has been a key issue in the Democratic debates as well, with Hillary Clinton pushing back on rival Bernie Sanders’ plan for universal health care. Amid all the debate, however, one group could prove to be the wild card...

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HFMA Panel: Pressures for Hospitals to Merge Are Relentless

Ron Shinkman | FierceHealthFinance | June 25, 2013

Hospitals throughout the country face constant and persistent pressure to merge, according to a panel discussion of four executives at the Health Financial Management Association's annual national institute in Orlando, Fla., last week. Read More »