From the same people who brought us HITECH, the stimulus bill for rapid rollout of commercial electronic medical records, order entry, results reporting and other components of enterprise clinical "command and control" software for hospitals through which every transaction of care must pass.
More IT malpractice. The Drudge links, as they appear on the page:
Obamacare website cost more than FACEBOOK, TWITTER, LINKEDIN, INSTAGRAM...
'How can we tax people for not buying a product from a website that doesn't work?'
Major insurers, Dem allies repeatedly warned Obama admin...
REPORT: WH knew site might not be ready...
POLL: Just 1 in 10 report success...
DNC head says site designed for 50,000 max...
Once you get in, you can't get out...
Crazzzzzzzy code...
'It looks like nobody tested it'...
WASHPOST: Not code, but 'outdated, costly, buggy technology'...
CARNEY: 'I Don’t Know' If Obama Has Tried Website...
Hawaii forced to relaunch after zero sign-ups...
I won't comment any further; I don't think I need to.
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Of course, the Anecdotalists [1] and Denialists [2] will probably say this is all a "glitch" and that things will be great in ver. 2.0.
Fools all.
Oh, and the cost, via Drudge, per the linked story. A mere:
-- SS
[1] See "Health IT: On Anecdotalism and Totalitarianism" at http://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2010/09/health-it-on-anecdotalism-and.html)
[2] See "The Denialists' Deck of Cards: An Illustrated Taxonomy of Rhetoric Used to Frustrate Consumer Protection Efforts" by Chris Jay Hoofnagle, available at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=962462)
Oct. 10, 2013 addendum:
Also see "Analysis: IT experts question architecture of Obamacare website" at http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/10/05/us-usa-healthcare-technology-analysis-idUKBRE99407T20131005. If the allegations here are even partially true, every programmer and manager who ever worked on this system should be summarily fired and never permitted to touch another computer involved in healthcare - ever.
-- SS
4 comments:
So let’s see, three years at over $634M works out to only $211M per year and that means in two more years we will only have spent $1T on a system that mathematically cannot be sustained.
Or do I have the math wrong?
Steve Lucas
Keep in mind, though, that nearly all the examples and studies that InformaticsMD has discussed in the past are of commercial health care IT systems used in clinical practice.
This is about a government run system used to access an insurance market.
They are not completely parallel.
Re: This is about a government run system used to access an insurance market. They are not completely parallel.
That's true - but the parallel I do see is spectacular IT incompetence complicated by the Dunning-Kruger effect.
Government and the health IT sellers are performing talent management out of the same playbook.
-- SS
Does any one know which company bid the lowest to get this gig?
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