The U.S. Government Accountability Office found the HHS & DOD wasted $291 million on ten duplicate technology investments between 2008 and 2013, according to a Government Accountability Office report.
The GAO found the two agencies had some IT investments that appeared to be duplicate representing a significant amount of spending. Of the 590 IT investments reviewed, the GAO identified 10 potentially duplicate investments at both the DOD and HHS which accounted for about $291 million in reported IT spending for fiscal years 2008 through 2013.
The 10 investments found, as shown in table below include the following:
• four such investments totaling about $31 million at DOD, which include two investments totaling $16 million that track health care status of warfighters and two investments totaling $15 million that manage dental care
• six potentially duplicate investments totaling approximately $260 million at HHS, which include four investments totaling $257 million that support enterprise information security and two totaling $4 million for Medicare Coverage Determination
|
Agency |
Purpose |
Number of Investments |
Planned & reported spending fiscal years 2008 – 2013 |
|
DOD |
Health Care Tracking Systems |
2 |
15.79 |
| Dental Management |
2 |
14.81 |
|
|
HHS |
Enterprise Information Security |
4 |
256.59 |
| Medicare Coverage Determination |
2 |
3.79 |
|
|
Total |
10 |
$290.98 |
|
NextGov reported that the DOD has already suspended one of its two health systems and plan to consolidate its two dental systems into one system by 2015. The HHS is planning to review the systems this month to identify possible opportunities for consolidation.
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