Health and Human Services
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The state’s most populous county has launched a $30 million, voter-approved investment in child-care workers. Tech plays a central role in the process by enabling equitable cash distribution at scale.
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The launch of this new tool also comes with new responsibilities for the state’s technology workforce. The benefits program could help some 1.3 million state residents.
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The data tool and interface, which was built in-house to flag crime and misuse, has saved the state millions and ensures benefits go to those in need. Created with federal funding, it recently earned a governor’s award.
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State legislators from both parties said building a successful site will take more than plugging in new software — a view echoed by technology experts.
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Lawmakers claim that the Hawaii Health Connector did not have a security assessment prior to its Oct. 15 launch, placing the personal information that consumers provide to sign up for health insurance at potential risk.
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Two recent reports give early estimates for how many people were uninsured before signing up for coverage under the Affordable Care Act. They offer different totals, but not because they disagree.
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Directors of state insurance exchanges said Thursday that they could fix continuing Obamacare glitches with grant money they already have.
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Legislative auditors acknowledged the review "was not conducted in accordance with generally accepted government auditing standards."
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With the first ACA enrollment season behind them, states are calculating how to improve the process.
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Analytics and data sharing help spot areas with high rates of emergency room use and hospital re-admissions.
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California Republican Darrell Issa, head of the powerful House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, has demanded a wide-ranging array of documents including security reports and correspondence between the exchange and federal officials..
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Multi-agency collaborative efforts key to attaining benefits of ACA, say officials speaking at the State Healthcare IT Connect Summit.
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The software is free for Maryland to use but the state's health secretary will negotiate an emergency $40 million to $50 million contract with the software company to develop the site.
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Some states that have struggled with technology problems are headed into an intensive new phase of fixes as they try to shepherd final enrollees.
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The president’s messaging machine shifts into gear for the political challenge to come: persuading Americans of Obamacare’s merits before congressional elections this fall.
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Even though many expected most states to choose to create their own insurance marketplaces and the deadline to secure federal funding to do so nears, most states are passing over the issue in legislative sessions.
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Connect for Health Colorado appeared to out-perform its federal counterpart.
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The governor's new Management and Performance Hub will automate agencies' key performance indicators to ultimately improve outcomes on individual targets, such as infant mortality.
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On March 31, the volume of county residents who applied for coverage through the state's exchange was five times the normal rate over the weekend.
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Efforts to prepare for a last-minute surge in enrollments paid off. Though applicants faced call center waits and website slowdowns, a repeat of website problems that plagued its Oct. 1 launch was avoided.
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People encountered a message that they were being placed in an online "waiting room" because of a large number of visitors.