“The U.S. Digital Service is slowly moving a Medicare mainframe to the cloud as a way to prepare for value-based care. Here’s a look inside the office’s deliberate strategy…”
“At a time when both providers and payers are struggling with the harsh realities of moving complex and regulated legacy systems to the cloud, the approach the USDS is taking with the Medicare healthcare data center could prove a useful guide…”
“Now the team has turned its attention to practically the mother of all healthcare data center challenges: a computer that runs 8 million lines of COBOL and close to 2 million lines of a customized version of the programming language Assembly. In other words, it’s complicated, said Scott Haselton, a digital service expert at the USDS and the lead engineer on this project…” Read the full article here.
Source: Medicare’s new member of its healthcare data center: The cloud – By Valerie Silverthorne, October 5, 2018. SearchHealthIT.
