AHLTA: Antiquated and Incomplete
By
Bob Brewin
Ahh, an acknowledgement from inside the Military Health System that the AHLTA electronic health record system has so many problems it needs junking.
Lt. Col. Dan Davis, chief of EHR clinical requirements at MHS, not only called the military EHR antiquated and incomplete, but also said it lacks the reliability, usability and functionality to adequately to manage care of military personnel and their families, according to the slide set of a talk he gave in July that a reader sent my way.
MHS has all kinds of tiger teams working on a new EHR, and based on Davis's slides, it looks like a decision on a new system may happen by this December.
And oh yeah, of course it will play well with the VA EHR system -- but how often have we heard that?