Healthcare.Gov

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Healthcare.gov

Technical retrospective

For: November 18, 2013

Business as usual

Group 6

For: November 18, 2013

Group 6

Contents

Executive summary 3

Introduction 3

Architecture 4

Management 5

Take away and learning from healthcare.gov 6

In summary 7

Addendum 7

Figures 8

References 10

Supplemental 10

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Executive summary

Introduction

The Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act, also known as Obamacare, was signed into law on March 23, 2010 by President Barack Obama (Petersen, 2012). Obamacare is the cornerstone of the Commander in Chief’s hard fought stance on health care reform. The Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act’s goal is to provide every American access to quality and affordable health care.

In providing affordable health care for every American it goes without saying than an adequate platform to disseminate, collect, and transact all the necessary data must be created. That platform, known by front end users as the healthcare.gov, was the product conceived by our government to act as the portal handling the logistics of the Obamacare discourse.

(Reuters, NEW YORK Sat Oct 5, 2013 11:47am EDT) - Days after the launch (Oct 1st) of the federal government's Obamacare website, millions of Americans looking for information on new health insurance plans were still locked out of the system even though its designers scrambled to add capacity.

Government official’s blame the persistent glitches on an overwhelming 8.6 million unique visitors received the first week.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, which oversaw development of the site, declined to make any of its IT experts available for interviews. CGI Group Inc, the Canadian contractor that built HealthCare.gov, is "declining to comment at this time," said spokeswoman Linda Odorisio (Reuters, NEW YORK Sat Oct 5, 2013 11:47am EDT).

Five outside technology experts...