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REPORT SAYS SEC. SHINSEKI WILL FORCE DoD TO ACCEPT
VA'S VISTA COMPUTER SYSTEM -- Shinseki, I'm told,
wants
Sec. Gates "to rip out AHLTA and replace it with
VistA."
For more about DoD's AHLTA (dud) healthcare
computer system, click here...
http://www.yourvabenefits.org/se
ssearch.php?q=ahlta&op=and
For more about VA's VistA (good) healthcare
computer system, click here...
http://www.yourvabenefits.org/s
essearch.php?q=vista&op=and
Story here...
http://whatsbrewin.nextgov
.com/2009/02/a_new_vista_for_ahlta_redux.php
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What's Brewin': Bob Brewin’s Take on Defense
Information Technology
A New VistA for AHLTA, Redux
By Bob Brewin
I'm picking up strong and high level signals that Veterans Affairs
Secretary Eric Shinseki plans to push the Defense Department to use the
VA's Veterans Health Information System and Technology Architecture
(VistA) electronic health record system instead of the Military Health
Systems Armed Forces Health Longitudinal Technology Application (AHLTA)
system.
Shinseki has made electronic health records, and the ability to easily
exchange health information with Defense, one of his key priorities, and
I'm told he has a meeting with Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Feb. 24
on the topic.
Shinseki, I'm told, wants Gates "to rip out AHLTA and replace it with
VistA." At his confirmation hearing in January, Shinseki told the Senate
VA Committee that he planned to work with Gates to ensure development of a
seamless electronic health records system for active-duty personnel and
veterans, and the meeting on Feb. 24 shows he does not plan to waste any
time on development of a system which serves both departments.
Dr. S. Ward Casscells, Assistant Secretary for Health Affairs, briefly
considered the VistA for AHLTA option last summer, but then said he
favored the "converged evolution" of a system which would jointly serve
Defense and VA.
A Booz Allen Hamilton report in January 2008 said development of a joint
inpatient electronic health records system will satisfy almost all the
requirements of Defense and VA.
Shinseki may have gotten the idea that VistA was a better solution for
Defense than AHLTA during his physical at Walter Reed Army Medical
 Center
in January shortly before his confirmation hearing. During his hearing he
that he asked two Walter Reed doctors if they were familiar with VA's
electronic health record system, and, according to Shinseki, they said,
"they thought it was an excellent system, and they wished they had it at
Walter Reed."
Hopefully more will be revealed on this subject when I discuss Defense/VA
health information sharing at the Government Executive Health IT breakfast
on Wednesday, March 4 with Rear Admiral Gregory Timberlake, Director,
Interagency Program Office, Department of Defense/Department of Veterans
Affairs. You can register for the breakfast here.
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posted by Larry Scott
Founder and Editor
VA Watchdog dot Org
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