Glimpse of health exchange audit shows progress
By Meredith Cohn, The Baltimore Sun | |
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The thousands who had trouble enrolling on the last dysfunctional website may be skeptical, but they have no choice but to take the officials' word for it. Exchange officials have declined to release a new audit of their preparation, despite requests from members of the news media.
To back up the claims, the exchange provided a summary last week of an audit by Angarai, a Greenbelt-based management consulting firm. The full audits are confidential, said Dr.
"Based on the initial assessment, it's Angarai's findings that the Exchange's IT structures follow commonly accepted industry standards (
The federal authorities overseeing the states' exchanges required the audits, called independent verification and validation.
Exchange officials released the full audits of the existing exchange website conducted by BerryDunn earlier this year to help explain the disastrous launch
Exchange leadership switched contractors because they wanted the audits to be "more proactive," according to
Angarai was hired about three months after the exchange board voted to ditch that website and adopt technology used in
And while this first summary shows the basic architecture and management of the new exchange is solid, it notes that the timelines are short to retrofit the code to work in
Angarai reported that it will begin meeting with exchange officials regularly to track progress. The exchange now expects to release new audit summaries every month.
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