The implementation of The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (aka ObamaCare) has not been without hiccups. President Barack Obama has already delayed the employer mandate until 2015, and some Congressional Republicans are threatening to shut down the government in October unless the program is defunded. Add technological concerns to the president’s growing list of headaches.
According to an Aug. 2 report issued by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the Inspector General, security testing is months behind schedule for the data hub that functions as the main conduit linking state health care exchanges to the federal government. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services was scheduled to begin testing the security capabilities of the data hub during the first week of June, the report notes. But CMS has pushed the date back twice — first to July 15, and then to a date between Aug. 5 and 16 — so it could complete performance stress testing of the hub. The CMS’ CIO, Tony Trenkle, was charged with determining on Sept. 4 whether or not the hub was properly secure; that deadline has now been stalled to Sept. 30 — one day before state health care exchanges are scheduled to go online for customers to buy health insurance.
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