The widespread problems in implementing the Affordable Care Act have provided some momentum to the efforts by the Obama administration and Congress to ratchet up reforms in the management and procurement of information technology. President Obama conceded the need to put more emphasis on such reforms when he spoke about the troubled health exchange website and other IT problems encountered in rolling out the Healthcare.gov program. One of the things the federal government does not do well, he admitted last fall, is the procurement of IT.
Loading ...
Healthcare Fiasco Energizes Federal IT Reform Efforts
Posted by: John K. Higgins January 29, 2014 05:00 AMThe widespread problems in implementing the Affordable Care Act have provided some momentum to the efforts by the Obama administration and Congress to ratchet up reforms in the management and procurement of information technology. President Obama conceded the need to put more emphasis on such reforms when he spoke about the troubled health exchange website and other IT problems encountered in rolling out the Healthcare.gov program. One of the things the federal government does not do well, he admitted last fall, is the procurement of IT.