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Feds Looking for Company to Run 'National Data Warehouse' for Obamacare, Medicare
The Weekly Standard via Drudge ^ | JAN 2, 2015 | JERYL BIER

Posted on 01/02/2015 6:42:36 PM PST by 9thLife

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is looking for vendors to run its "National Data Warehouse," a database for "capturing, aggregating, and analyzing information" related to beneficiary and customer experiences with Medicare and the federal Obamacare marketplaces. Although the database primarily consists of quality control metrics related to individuals' interactions with customer service, potential contractors are to "[d]emonstrate ... experience with scalability and security in protecting data and information with customer, person-sensitive information including Personal Health Information and Personally Identifiable information (personal health records, etc.)." Vendors are also instructed that one of the requirements of a possible future contract would be "[e]nsuring that all products developed and delivered adhere to Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) compliance standards."

For a number of years, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the division of HHS responsible for Medicare and now Obamacare also, has maintained a "national data warehouse" (NDW) related to the 1-800-MEDICARE helpline. The passage of the Affordable Care Act and subsequent establishment of the Marketplaces has expanded the scope of the NDW. The CMS notice explains the NDW as follows:


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: data; datawarehouse; feds; ge; generalelectric; jeffreyimmelt; obamacare; obamacarewarehouse; ocaredatawarehouse
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Death to databases.
1 posted on 01/02/2015 6:42:37 PM PST by 9thLife
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To: 9thLife

Excerpt.


2 posted on 01/02/2015 6:43:08 PM PST by 9thLife (Barack Hussein Obama is one of them.)
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Wouldn’t the House have to appropriate money for this ?


3 posted on 01/02/2015 6:48:24 PM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Rip it out by the roots.)
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To: 9thLife

They’ll get a company in India or Bangladesh to run it.


4 posted on 01/02/2015 6:51:26 PM PST by headstamp 2
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

They probably already did in the original bill.


5 posted on 01/02/2015 6:54:06 PM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: 9thLife

Friends of Democrats will get the Job


6 posted on 01/02/2015 6:57:56 PM PST by molson209 (Blank)
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To: molson209

VA level healthcare for all.


7 posted on 01/02/2015 6:58:56 PM PST by CMailBag
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To: 9thLife

The ULTIMATE invasion of privacy.....


8 posted on 01/02/2015 7:01:00 PM PST by originalbuckeye (Moderation in temper is always a virtue; moderation in principle is always a vice. Paine)
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To: 9thLife
How about Kim Dotcom?


9 posted on 01/02/2015 7:01:38 PM PST by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: 9thLife

What could go wrong??


10 posted on 01/02/2015 7:13:56 PM PST by ealgeone
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Just business as usual.

The successful bidder will have to kick back a big part of the contract money to the democrat party, the Barack Obama presidential library, and the Michelle Obama charitable foundation yet to be formed.


11 posted on 01/02/2015 7:22:03 PM PST by Iron Munro (Conservative Epitaph: Don't Cry For Me , You Still Have Two More Years Of Obama)
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We’ll pay for Nordstroms and get Target.


12 posted on 01/02/2015 7:26:02 PM PST by TurboZamboni (Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.-JFK)
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To: Iron Munro
Looks like GE has a foot in the door...

The General Electric Corporation is now running ads (heard on WABC Radio) bragging about how they're building a comprehensive, global database of individual medical records ("for every person on the planet"). We recall wondering what sort "stimulus" would be in the cards for giant GE when we saw pictures of its CEO Jeffrey Immelt hanging out with President Obama last year.

13 posted on 01/02/2015 7:29:02 PM PST by 9thLife (Barack Hussein Obama is one of them.)
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They should be offering the contract to whomever is hacking into the CC systems of Target, Staples, X-Box, Chick-fil-a, yadayadayada. There’s no way such a massive central database wouldn’t be a treasure trove, pot of gold target of opportunity.


14 posted on 01/02/2015 7:29:09 PM PST by Sgt_Schultze (A half-truth is a complete lie)
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To: RightGeek

He’s not down for the struggle.


15 posted on 01/02/2015 7:30:32 PM PST by 9thLife (Barack Hussein Obama is one of them.)
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There’s no way such a massive central database wouldn’t be a treasure trove, pot of gold target of opportunity.

I think you might even be understating.

16 posted on 01/02/2015 7:31:08 PM PST by 9thLife (Barack Hussein Obama is one of them.)
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The IRS, as long as they lose it all.


17 posted on 01/02/2015 8:05:09 PM PST by Vince Ferrer
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“Looks like GE has a foot in the door... “

The BNSF railroad hired GE to build a replacement centralized train dispatching system several years ago and they were not competent. When attempting to use it, we had technicians, one per every four dispatchers rebooting computers as the crashed. The RR had to revert to the old system they had.


18 posted on 01/02/2015 8:06:18 PM PST by Dalberg-Acton
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To: 9thLife

Try SONY


19 posted on 01/02/2015 8:31:22 PM PST by oldbill
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Plus I read that, right after bragging about this contract, GE moved its healthcare business to Beijing.

Can't make it up!

20 posted on 01/02/2015 8:46:29 PM PST by 9thLife (Barack Hussein Obama is one of them.)
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