GAO Diagnoses State/CMS Data Malady–Flags $36.7 Billion Improper Payments
The Trump administration has a fever for curing Fraud, Waste, and Abuse (FWA)–in fact, this is perhaps the most important Three Letter Acronym in Federal IT today. So, GAO’s January report on the...
View ArticleTech Giants Pledge Healthcare Interoperability Following White House Conference
Following Monday’s CMS Blue Button 2.0 Developer Conference at the White House, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, IBM, Oracle, and Salesforce committed “to removing barriers for the adoption of technologies...
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CMS Reports Breach Of 75,000 Records
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) reported a data breach of its HealthCare.gov site, with the attacker accessing the files of about 75,000...
View ArticleIncomplete Medicaid Data Harms Opioid Monitoring, HHS IG Says
Limited collection of Medicaid data by states is standing in the way of a complete analysis of opioid misuse and abuse within the program, according to an August 15 report from the Department of Health...
View ArticleCMS Instituting Regulatory and Telehealth Changes
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) are undergoing regulation changes to address the surge in COVID-19 patients, including changes to promote telehealth. The changes allow for local...
View ArticleGAO Recommends Better Cyber Coordination on Fed-State Data Sharing
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) made several recommendations to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and others to improve coordination of cybersecurity requirements among Federal...
View ArticleBiden Taps Chiquita Brooks-LaSure for CMS Administrator
President Biden announced several senior appointments on Feb. 19 plans to the Departments of Health and Human Services (HHS), Education, and Veterans Affairs (VA), including Chiquita Brooks-LaSure as...
View ArticleCMS Fraud Detection Efforts Building on Further ML Use
Machine learning (ML), AI, and other advanced technology tools used for detecting fraud at the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) are...
View ArticleHHS Utilizing GIS to Target Waste, Fraud, and Abuse
As government agencies shape their goals and priorities for the new administration, they continue to target waste, fraud, and abuse. Rob Owens, deputy inspector general for Management and Policy at the...
View ArticleCMS Improves CX on New Medicare Website
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has updated its Medicare.gov website, creating an optimized customer experience (CX) and making it easier for millions of Americans to find...
View ArticleGDIT Wins $65M Cloud and Data Integration Contract from CMS
The Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has awarded General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT) a $65 million cloud and data integration...
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Human-Centered Design can Solve Many IT Issues, CIOs Say
Federal agencies can leverage human-centered design principles to solve a variety of IT issues, government chief information officers (CIOs) shared during the GDIT Emerge Health 2022 conference on Nov....
View ArticleCMS Subcontractor Data Breach Potentially Exposes Data of 254,000 Customers
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is responding to a data breach at Healthcare Management Solutions, LLC (HMS) – a subcontractor to CMS – that may have exposed personally...
View ArticleBobby Saxon Departs for Leidos after Six-Year Stint at CMS
Long-time Federal government IT leader Bobby Saxon has returned to the private sector after serving for six years at the Department of Health and Human Services’ Center for Medicare & Medicaid...
View ArticleCMS Using Data to Support Health Equity
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is striving to use data to support its health equity efforts, agency officials said today at the AFCEA Bethesda Health IT Summit. While CMS is...
View ArticleCMS CIO: People Trump Tech in Modernization Effort
When it comes to building a resilient modernization effort, the people aspect of that task is “way more important” than the technology aspect, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid...
View ArticleCMS Responds to Data Breach Affecting Over 600,000 Medicare Beneficiaries
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) are responding to a data breach in one of their contractor’s software that is affecting over...
View ArticleCMS Awards $450M System Modernization Contract to GDIT
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has awarded General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT) a $450 million contract to continue to operate and modernize the agency’s integrated...
View ArticleCMS Names Andrea Fletcher Chief Digital Strategy Officer
Andrea Fletcher has been named chief digital strategy officer (CDSO) for the Digital Service at Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), according to her LinkedIn profile. Fletcher became...
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MeriTalk Q&A: CMS Chief Digital Strategy Officer Talks Modernization,...
With an enrolled base that is positively staggering – 87 million Americans for Medicaid, and 65 million for Medicare – the Department of Health and Human Services’ Centers for Medicare and Medicaid...
View ArticleCMS Awards CGI $72M Healthcare Modernization Contract
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has awarded CGI Federal Inc., a firm-fixed-price contract of $72 million to help modernize the agency’s Health Plan Management System (HPMS)....
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