Military Health System Seeks Options for AHLTA

Peter Buxbaum | Federal Computer Week | July 23, 2008

The Military Health System is actively pursuing alternatives to AHLTA, its electronic medical record system.

MHS officials have already received the recommendations of Booz Allen Hamilton, the consultant it commissioned to study whether the Defense Department should switch to a system that more closely resembles the Veterans Affairs Department’s Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture (VistA).

The results of the study have yet to be released, but Dr. S. Ward Casscells, assistant secretary of Defense for health affairs said “we are going to make a call on this” within a matter of days.
At least part of that study involved the feasibility of developing a joint DOD/VA inpatient EMR, a Booz Allen executive said.