(Bloomberg) — Security testing for a new computer system underpinning the U.S. health care overhaul is behind schedule, leaving little margin for error to meet an Oct. 1 deadline, government auditors say.
Testing of the government’s “data services hub” to support new health insurance marketplaces wasn’t scheduled to begin until yesterday, more than a month behind schedule, the Health and Human Services inspector general says in a report. The testing is necessary for the hub, a computer service built by UnitedHealth Group Inc. subsidiary QSSI, to be certified that it can safely route tax information and other data among the exchanges and federal agencies.
