...'s ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEM, AHLTA, IS ANOTHER WALTER REED-TYPE .... For more about Dod's AHLTA system, use the VA Watchdog search ...sessear ch.php?q=ahlta&op=and For more about ... Forces Health Longitudinal Technology Application, or AHLTA, begins in 1997, when the ... a press conference rechristening the system "AHLTA." "We have put a ... system," he said . But AHLTA was CHCS II, warts and all ... and "volunteered only praise" for AHLTA. This stubbornness has shaken military medical staff, many of whom view AHLTA as an impediment to providing quality care... http://www.vawatchdog.org/08/nf08/nfsep08/nf091608-1.htm
... A HEADACHE FOR MILITARY DOCTORS -- AHLTA is so unreliable and difficult to use ... For more about Dod's disastrous AHLTA medical record system, use the VA ...sess earch.php?q=ahlta&op=and Dod has been ... billion electronic health-record system, AHLTA, is so unreliable and difficult to ... Schoomaker, Army surgeon general, blamed AHLTA's failures on "lack of ...record system who have been victimized by AHLTA's poor design. "Being ... extra time it takes to work with AHLTA, or to work around it. Though AHLTA is a Dod-wide system,... http://www.vawatchdog.org/09/nf09/nfmar09/nf033009-5.htm
... down doctors by Tom Philpott Rollout of AHLTA, the Defense Department's electronic ... he now only can see three because AHLTA is so slow to accept data. ... four times more time to document in AHLTA than it did when we used paper ... treat 1800 patients a month. With AHLTA, the monthly patient average had fallen ..., then we can't use AHLTA.'" AHLTA's top administrators acknowledge that the ... dozen physicians interviewed for this column said AHLTA, for all its faults, will lead to improved patient care. AHLTA-aided physicians receiving new patients,... http://www.vawatchdog.org/old newsflashes APR 06/newsflash04-10-2006-6.htm
... Sec. Gates "to rip out AHLTA and replace it with Vista." For more about Dod's AHLTA (dud) healthcare computer system, ...se ssearch.php?q=ahlta&op=and For more about ... Defense Information Technology A New Vista for AHLTA, Redux By Bob Brewin I' ... Armed Forces Health Longitudinal Technology Application (AHLTA) system. Shinseki has made electronic ..., wants Gates "to rip out AHLTA and replace it with Vista." ... Affairs, briefly considered the Vista for AHLTA option last summer, but then said ... was a better solution for Defense than AHLTA during his physical at Walter Reed Army... http://www.vawatchdog.org/09/nf09/nffeb09/nf022109-4.htm
.... ... Dod's AHLTA system ... http:/ .../sessearch.php?q=ahlta&op=and ... ... of Defense switched to a system called AHLTA, which critics charge was CHCS II ... and circumstances. Among this criticism was AHLTA's inability to 'communicate' ... and House Veterans Affairs committees had criticized AHLTA. For its part, GAO indicated that the inability to transfer AHLTA records prevented badly wounded troops from having ... detailing a number of longstanding concerns with AHLTA and highlighting the AHLTA-Vista interface problems. Miller also... http://www.vawatchdog.org/10/nf10/nffeb10/nf021410-1.htm
... For more about Dod's useless AHLTA health record system, use the VA ...se ssearch.php?q=ahlta&op=and We have two ... records, a task currently handled by AHLTA, inpatient records, which is a function not available on AHLTA, and battlefield records, Campbell said ... are not planning to get rid of AHLTA.' VA plans to work closely ... for its fall break on Friday. AHLTA has been a source of controversy. ... said MHS needed to move away from AHLTA because military doctors were "fed up ... toward a 'converged evolution' of AHLTA and VISTA, which the department started... http://www.vawatchdog.org/08/nf08/nfsep08/nf092508-9.htm
... that works. Dod's current AHLTA system is a disaster. VA' ... Vista, trying to make Vista and AHLTA "talk" to each other, ... Armed Forces Health Longitudinal Technology Application ( AHLTA ), a proprietary system developed by ... the company wants to keep control of AHLTA. Dr. S. Ward Casscells ...Using the current form of Vista or AHLTA will not work. Trying to morph ..., and dollar costs, of replacing AHLTA with VISTA would be too high, ... up trying to upgrade both Vista and AHLTA in coordination, aiming at convergence but ... similar to today's Vista or AHLTA, but most clinicians like the look... http://www.vawatchdog.org/08/nf08/nfJUL08/nf072408-2.htm
... to seek centralized systems. The Dod has its own medical computing system, called AHLTA , built by contractors, and sets its priority there. Ideology, a ... vouchers,' Longman said. When wounded soldiers are discharged they move from the AHLTA system to Vista, and the two systems still don't communicate, ... creating an interface. Yet there are Dod people who have built their careers on AHLTA and want people to switch to their system.' It's those ... VA has been using electronic health records for years, and depends on them, AHLTA is just now starting to make them mandatory, Longman said. 'The... http://www.vawatchdog.org/08/nf08/nfAPR08/nf042408-3.htm
9. VA Watchdog dot Org - VA NEWS FLASH - 07-22-2007 #1 -- GAO REPORT CONTINUES TO REBUKE VA AND DoD FOR MEDICAL RECORDS FIASCO -- For the past seven years, the GAO as a watchdog has been barking incessantly at the VA and DoD health system over the inability of the two government-run healthcare organizations to exchange patient records.nf072207-1.htm
... Healthevet Vista at the VA, the successor to its legacy Vista system, and AHLTA at the Defense Department, the replacement for its Composite Health Care System, ... gloom and frustration. The agency noted that as part of the Healthevet Vista and AHLTA upgrades, the two government organizations have reached what the GAO is calling a ... Healthevet Vista, by 2012 and the Defense Department on its CHCS I replacement, AHLTA, by 2011, "there is currently no scheduled completion date for either ... there are four other legacy healthcare information systems in use in addition to the new AHLTA system and its CDR. "Dod's various systems are not integrated... http://www.vawatchdog.org/07/nf07/nfJUL07/nf072207-1.htm
... Texas. He acknowledged that DOD's Armed Forces Health Longitudinal Technology Application (AHLTA) a comprehensive electronic health record will allow providers to access medical information. In its comments, DOD also cited the access that AHLTA will provide. However, DOD documentation that describes the system states that it is ... inpatient care not just the outpatient care that servicemembers received at DOD. Furthermore, AHLTA cannot be accessed by all of DOD's providers. In its comments on our draft report DOD stated that AHLTA is not operational at 19 percent of DOD's Mtfs and that full deployment... http://www.vawatchdog.org/old newsflashes AUG 06/newsflash08-01-2006-2.htm
