“… The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) was recently faced with the reality that its legacy system needed to be modernized for all of these reasons and more. Recently, Scott Haselton, a Senior Software Engineer on the Health and Human Services team at the United States Digital Service (USDS) and the lead on the Medicare Payment Modernization project described how his team took on this challenge. This is the story of what his team is doing to address the situation and keep a mission critical system online…”
“This is a staggeringly important system that is slowly crumbling under the weight of several factors. The first is simply that the system is old, in some cases more than 50 years old.”
“The next issue is that the system runs on 8 million lines of COBOL and 1.5 million lines of proprietary assembly language which live on 15 disparate mainframe computers…” Read the full article here.
Source: How the USDS is Modernizing Medicare’s 50 Year Old Payment System – By Wendell Santos, November 13, 2018. ProgrammableWeb.
