Have Heads Begun to Roll Over Obamacare Imbroglio? [View all]
Wednesday morning, as U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius testified about the ongoing problems with healthcare.gov at a Senate Finance Committee hearing, the first head rolled as a result of the Obamacare website debacle. It was announced that Tony Trenkle, the CIO of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the HHS entity responsible for creating the healthcare insurance portal, would be leaving his post as of 15 November. According to an e-mail sent to agency employees on Wednesday, Trenkle is “leaving for the private sector”; the agency’s chief operating officer, Michelle Snyder, announced a reshuffling meant to temporarily fill Trenkle’s role.
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It was also revealed this week, in documents released (pdf) by investigators working at the behest of the U.S. House of Representatives, that the soon-to-depart Trenkle and CMS COO Snyder signed an internal memo in late September that proves they knew security controls for HealthCare.gov had not been fully tested. To reduce the risk of sensitive personal information being stolen by hackers, they approved a plan that would shore up security over a six-month period. Imagine how much data could be purloined in that amount of time.
http://spectrum.ieee.org/riskfactor/computing/it/have-heads-begun-to-roll-over-obamacare-imbroglio
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