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Could Obama's Campaign Tech Gurus Fix Healthcare.gov? Let's Ask 'Em!

Tim Murphy | Mother Jones | October 24, 2013

The president's reelection team never had to tackle a project this big—or federal procurement rules... Read More »

Health Exchange Website Failures Were Both Predicted And Predictable

Katherine McIntire Peters | Nextgov | October 10, 2013

Who knew it could be so difficult to build an effective, user-friendly website capable of efficiently serving up complex information for millions of users? Quite a few people, actually. And that’s why the Obama administration’s bungling of the most public aspect of its signature policy initiative is so baffling. [...] Read More »

Officials Spent Just Two Weeks Testing HealthCare.gov Prior To Launching It

Joseph Marks | Nextgov | October 24, 2013

Contractors that helped develop the Obama Administration’s troubled online health insurance marketplace HealthCare.gov told lawmakers on Thursday they wish they’d had more time to test the site before launch but denied any ongoing problems with their portions of the site. Read More »

6 IT Outsourcing Lessons Learned From Healthcare.gov's Troubled Launch

Stephanie Overby | CIO.com | October 15, 2013

The federal government's recent launch of Healthcare.gov is a stunning example of outsourced IT gone wrong. The multi-contractor project has been riddled with issues and should serve as a reminder to any IT outsourcing customer regarding steps to take to ensure a smooth rollout. Read More »

A Better Model For HealthCare.gov Is Weather.gov

Patrick Thibodeau | Computerworld | October 27, 2013

Instead of beating up the government for its HealthCare.gov rollout, let’s look at what the U.S. gets right. It excels at providing data to businesses, individuals, application developers, researchers, or anyone with a need for it. Read More »

Affordable Care Act (ACA) Web Site: Too Much Help Will Slow The Project

Bill Conerly | Forbes | October 21, 2013

What’s the problem with ObamaCare? Recent technical problems call that question to mind, but the answer is not what you may be thinking. Read More »

Analysis: IT Experts Question Architecture Of Obamacare Website

Sharon Begley | Reuters | October 5, 2013

Days after the launch of the federal government's Obamacare website, millions of Americans looking for information on new health insurance plans were still locked out of the system even though its designers scrambled to add capacity. Read More »

Category C Liberalism

Paul Glastris | Washington Monthly | October 24, 2013

Like Ed and Kevin Drum I found Mike Konczal’s post about how the problems with healthcare.gov might reflect competing visions of liberalism interesting and wanted to expand on it. Read More »

CMS Officials Warned Of Security Risks Just Before Healthcare.gov Went Live

Jaikumar Vijayan | Computerworld | October 30, 2013

Less than four days before Healthcare.gov went live, two senior officials at the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) expressed reservations about the security preparedness of the site. Read More »

Colophon for the GOV.UK beta

James Stewart | Government Digital Service | January 31, 2013

We’ve been cataloguing the technologies and tools we’ve used in producing the beta of GOV.UK. Naturally our technology stack is always evolving, but this list captures its state at the moment when the beta was released. You can see the equivalent list for alpha.gov.uk here. Read More »

Consumers Abandoning Healthcare.gov

Stephen Landman | thepeoplesvoice.org | October 29, 2013

Can you blame them? According to Digital Trends (DT), "more than $500 million" was spent creating "the digital equivalent of a rock." DT's source is the General Accounting Office (GAO). Most spending went for contracts, saying... Read More »

Github To White House: Open Source Your HealthCare.gov Code And Let Us Help

Christina Farr | VentureBeat | November 1, 2013

Healthcare.gov has been referred to by the national press as “excruciatingly embarrassing,” “a poster child for the federal government’s technical ineptitude,” and “a mess.” [...] Silicon Valley’s technology entrepreneurs have described in recent interviews how they would have approached the project differently from the start. Read More »

Health Exchange Tech Problems Point To A Thornier Issue

Elise Hu | NPR | October 8, 2013

One week after , the federal site to help you sign up for health insurance exchanges went down again overnight for additional software fixes. The Obama administration says the technology powering the marketplaces buckled under unexpectedly high traffic. But the ongoing software hiccups for point to a much thornier problem: procurement processes. 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 Data Center Crashes

Ken Thomas | Time | October 27, 2013

Republicans said Sunday they intend to press Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius on the Obama administration’s troubled launch of healthcare.gov, the online portal to buy insurance — even as the website suffered yet another setback. Read More »