On the heels
of the news that Community Health Systems was just hacked
Comes
another bombshell that Healthcare.gov may be open to attack
By all accounts
the roll out was a disaster that on the CMS competence took its toll
Which is why
AP filed a FOIA to see if CMS had met needed data security goals
It should
come as no surprise; CMS turned the request down ending another transparency hope
Lame excuse
that revealing would breach CMS’s security through obscurity as a means for it
to cope
Maybe
revealing security practices might make patient data easier to steal
Or more
examples of CMS waste and incompetence the F0IA might reveal
After all CMS
Administrator Marilyn Tavenner in a very unusual bureaucratic step
Signed off
on security although her agency professionals balked as website was not ready
yet
So AP is
urging CMS to reconsider while the patients on pins and needles will wait
Hoping that
another hacking breach will be the HIPPA medical records future fate.
The “transparent”
administration once again reveals its true opaque spots
Blocking
again information that security experts believe was validly sought
© August
19, 2014 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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