AHLTA Contest Winner Is . . .

Anonymous.

Alas, I had singled out the best entry (actually two entries sent in by the same person) in the AHLTA definition contest, but the winner has chosen to remain anonymous. It seems person who submitted the entries fear that that the folks who run the Military Health System may not have a sense of humor when it comes to clever acronyms to describe AHLTA, the military electronic health record system, which has had its troubles.

The winning entries for the new AHLTA acronym were submitted by a Navy medical officer serving with the Marines somewhere in the Central Command area of operations. They are:

All Hope Lost Through Automation

All Healthworkers Loathe This Application

Since many military medical personnel consider AHLTA a lemon, I am sending 32 free-range, line caught lemons purchased at the Santa Fe, N.M., Whole Food Market outlet to the clever winner, along with 10 pounds of sugar to make lemonade.

When Tom Shoop, editor of Government Executive, gets the lemon bill, he will understand why Whole Foods customers also call the grocery store chain "Whole Paycheck" -- 32 organic free-range lemons cost $19.