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• Superbug tracking app hits top medical spot in Apple's App Store

  A new app that tracks where antibacterial resistant superbugs are growing has become a favorite among physicians with more than 100,000 downloads in less than a month.

• Benchmarking Healthcare.gov: A homepage in 3 seconds, but then a failure

  Website performance testing service SmartBear finds improvements to the healthcare.gov site during a test Monday, but there was also a partial outage in a key feature during the enrollment process.

• CMS officials warned of security risks just before Healthcare.gov went live

  Less than four days before Healthcare.gov went live, two senior officials at the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services expressed reservations about the security preparedness of the site.

• 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.

• Security concerns prompt supoena for Healthcare.gov data

  A U.S. House committee chairman, citing security concerns, today ordered a Healthcare.gov contractor to provide detailed information about its work on the project.

• Scramble to fix Healthcare.gov site heightens security risks

  The ongoing scramble to fix glitches affecting the troubled Healthcare.gov website could heighten security risks and introduce fresh vulnerabilities into an already fragile system.

• Healthcare.gov may be a 'black swan'

  Despite partisan sniping over the Affordable Care Act, members of a U.S. House committee probing the problems at Healthcare.gov Thursday asked some tough, IT-specific questions that revealed some key facts.

• Verizon launches cloud for sharing data from patient remote monitoring devices

  Verizon announced the launch of its Converged Health Management service, which stores data from patient remote monitoring devices to be shared with clinicians.

• Congress to probe Healthcare.gov for politics

  The U.S. House will begin drilling into the problems at Healthcare.gov on Thursday when a panel of project contractors face the the Energy and Commerce Committee. Fireworks are likely.

• 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.

• Healthcare.gov website 'didn't have a chance in hell'

  A majority of large IT projects fail to meet deadlines, go over budgets and don't make their users happy. Such is the case with Healthcare.gov.

• Millions flood healthcare insurance sites as feds grapple with glitches

  As Obamacares health insurance exchange opened for enrollment today, state and federal sites providing the service were inundated with requests, ultimately leading to slowdowns or outages.

• Obamacare exchanges hit by early technical glitches

  Would-be insurance customers in the U.S. ran into early problems today accessing the new federally run healthcare exchange as well as several state-run exchanges.

• H-1B workers in line for Obamacare work

  Some state governments are willing to hire offshore outsourcing firms to work on controversial IT contracts that don't bar use of temporary foreign labor, or workers on H-1B visas.

• Health IT Advocates Press for Interoperability

  Healthcare workers from around the country converge on Capitol Hill seeking greater pressure to align EHR industry around common standards so providers and healthcare systems can seamlessly share records.