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Obamacare Website Has Cost $840 Million
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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Open-Source Everything: The Moral of the Healthcare.gov Debacle
The U.S. federal government, led by the executive branch, should make all taxpayer-funded software development open-sourced by default. In the short run, this would help to prevent the recurrence of problems like those that plague healthcare.gov. Longer term, it will lead to better, more secure software and could allow the government to deliver a range of services more effectively. And it would enrich democracy to boot. Read More »
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Petition calls on White House to hand Healthcare.gov code to open source community
Thus far, 1,278 people have signed a petition on WhiteHouse.gov asking for CGI Federal to turn the code that comprises Healthcare.gov over to the open source community. Read More »
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Petition Launched To Get The White House To Open Source Healthcare.gov Code
After the disastrous technological launch of the healthcare.gov website, built by political cronies rather than companies who understand the internet, there has been plenty of discussion as to why the code wasn't open sourced. [...] And, now, a "We the People..." petition has been launched, asking the White House to open source the code to Healthcare.gov... Read More »
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Shortened Bidding Process Limited Obamacare Contractor Options
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 »
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Tension and Flaws Before Health Website Crash
On a sultry day in late August, a dozen staff members of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services gathered at the agency’s Baltimore headquarters with managers from the major contractors building HealthCare.gov to review numerous problems with President’s Obama’s online health insurance initiative. The mood was grim.
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The Healthcare.gov Fiasco
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 »
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U.K. Official Urges U.S. Government To Adopt A Digital Core
When he read about the technical failures plaguing HealthCare.gov, Mike Bracken said it felt like a real-life version of the movie Groundhog Day. During the past decade, the government in the United Kingdom faced a string of public, embarrassing and costly IT failures. Finally, a monster technical fiasco — a failed upgrade for the National Health Service — led to an overhaul of the way the British government approached technology. Read More »
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VistA Education Meeting - New VistA Class At SUNY Albany
New York State is currently performing the largest deployment of VistA in the United States (outside of the Department of Veterans Affairs). This development is taking place at the Office of Mental Health (OMH), and it is bringing together State Government, Industry and Academia in an open and agile collaborative environment, creating the perfect conditions for promoting the growth of the VistA open source community. Read More »
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We Paid Over $500 Million For The Obamacare Sites And All We Got Was This Lousy 404 [Updated]
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 »
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What The Healthcare.gov Debacle Teaches Us About How To Fix Government Software
A single change--making development open source--could have saved the new site and might change the outcome of future projects. Read More »
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White House Accused Of Letting Politics Influence HealthCare.gov Design
Congressional overseers made their first move to apportion blame on Monday for the troubled launch of HealthCare.gov, the government’s online health insurance marketplace, while the White House turned to social media to drum up public support for the ailing and embattled website. Read More »
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Why States Are Doing Obamacare Better
A small—and somewhat surprising—handful of states are implementing Obamacare much more effectively than the Obama administration. Read More »
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Why The Government Never Gets Tech Right
For the first time in history, a president has had to stand in the Rose Garden to apologize for a broken Web site. But HealthCare.gov is only the latest episode in a string of information technology debacles by the federal government. Indeed, according to the research firm the Standish Group, 94 percent of large federal information technology projects over the past 10 years were unsuccessful...
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