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  • Hungry Jack's whopper of a transformation

    ​Hungry Jacks is kicking of a major cloud first strategy in coming weeks by replacing a number of its decade old, internally developed business applications.

    Written by George Nott19 Oct. 16 06:00
  • Medicare data available to help businesses ‘shake up healthcare'

    WASHINGTON -- In an effort to expand the utility of government health data and improve care for the sickest Americans, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Tuesday said it will open its datasets to the business community for the first time.

    Written by Kenneth Corbin05 June 15 00:15
  • DARPA unveils hack-proof drone tech

    In a claim reminiscent of Oracle Corp.'s 'unbreakable' marketing campaign of several years ago, the U.S. military has built what it calls a hack proof drone.

    Written by Jaikumar Vijayan28 May 14 05:59
  • Feds to dump CGI from Healthcare.gov project

    The Obama Administration is set to fire CGI Federal as prime IT contractor of the problem-plagued Healthcare.gov website, a report says.

    Written by Jaikumar Vijayan10 Jan. 14 21:01
  • Healthcare.gov agency seeks CTO, starting pay: $119K

    Are you seeking a job in an IT department that recently drew the ire of the President of the United States? If so, you might be interested in the job of CTO at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

    Written by Patrick Thibodeau07 Jan. 14 21:31
  • Healthcare.gov blame game goes on at House hearing

    A federal official directly responsible for Healthcare.gov appeared Wednesday to blame a 'subset' of contractors for the website's problems. In doing so, the government was refuting contractor claims that the Website's problems are the government's fault.

    Written by Patrick Thibodeau29 Oct. 13 20:33
  • Obamacare exchange contractors had past security lapses

    Two of the contractors involved in developing the Affordable Care Act healthcare exchanges have had fairly serious data security issues, a Computerworld review of publicly available information has found.

    Written by Jaikumar Vijayan23 Oct. 13 10:27
  • Obamacare data hub is secure and ready to roll

    The central system built to support Affordable Care Act health insurance exchanges has successfully completed security testing and is set begin operating on October 1, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced Wednesday.

    Written by Jaikumar Vijayan11 Sept. 13 20:37
  • Healthcare's Accountable Care Organizations Face Daunting IT Task, Deadlines

    Outlined in the Affordable Care Act, the ACO model aims to link hospitals, physician networks, acute care facilities and other organizations in an effort to provide more coordinated care that in turn reduces costs. But ACOs must address four key IT challenges before a strict government deadlines impose financial penalties.

    Written by John Moore03 June 13 14:14
  • Melbourne hacker releases open source Django apps

    To fill a requirement for flexible content and management and e-commerce, Melbourne-based software engineer Stephen McDonald has released two open source projects built with the Django framework.

    Written by Rodney Gedda18 March 11 15:58
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