Posted on 09/02/2016 12:15:44 PM PDT by spintreebob
The scheduled initial rollout of the Military Health System's new multibillion-dollar electronic health record system has been delayed, at least for several months.
The Defense Department is blaming the pause on an “aggressive schedule and issues identified during testing..
The first go-lives “will move in a few months,” the statement said.
The proposed new EHR system, called MHS GENESIS since a renaming in April, was to be initially deployed in December at a select group of facilities in the Pacific Northwest.
In July 2015, a consortium led by defense contractor Leidos, Accenture Federal Services and Cerner Corp. won the $4.3 billion contract, one of the largest in health IT history, following a 22-month procurement competition. The new system will replace a hodgepodge of existing EHRs at 55 military hospitals and 600 clinics and connect with the VistA EHR at the Veterans Health Administration, the healthcare arm of the Veterans Affairs Department.
The new EHR system must be interoperable with EHRs from multiple other vendors used by civilian hospitals and office-based physicians. About 60% of the care given to the military's 9.5 million active duty and retired military personnel and their families is in those settings.
The “total cost of ownership” for the new system was estimated at $9 billion.
“We collaborated closely with our vendor, the Leidos Partnership for Defense Health, to make the best overall decision for the successful deployment of MHS GENESIS,” said Stacy Cummings, program executive officer for the project, in the statement. “We have a responsibility to our customers to ensure that all required test procedures and processes are completed in an orderly manner. During the testing of the system, we identified the need for more time before initial deployment to ensure we are providing the best possible user experience to our beneficiaries and healthcare providers.”
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AHLTA was horrible. I think it was 1980’s COBOL. The Global Service Desk is ramping up for this. Quite a few jobs out there from Leidos and HP. If anyone knows Cerner and is looking for a support job, The GSD in San Antonio is hiring. I think all you need is public trust security.
The Dutch have been using electronic health records for years.
Kaiser has a system that seems to work internally.
Why not use what the VA uses?
Most military people will eventually need and get VA treatment.
I think that is the point of this.
First, understand that this is not the entire Military Health system, it is just the small part called EHR.
Second, the VA is spending billions on its own system.
Third, your FED taxes are also building separate systems in each state and territory.
The goal is that ALL EHR systems and ALL Healthcare systems will be “Interoperable”. That way the gummint bureaucrats (think IRS) can see everyone’s health records.
Think in how many ways the government can then improve your health.
INFOTYRANNY.
Well if its Oracle based software its fooked up .....
Except for the inefficient way Oracle handles dates, Oracle is almost as good as DB2. With both of them, the problems are not with the database. The problems are with people who have no clue how to design a relational database. Need I mention Accenture, which subs all the important work in a chain of subs of subs that results in the actual work being done by extremely low paid, low skilled workers.
Modern Oracle is now a mainframe with proprietary everything (as plugins but you only get the benefit of any Oracle product if you buy all the other Oracle products also.) But, of course, Oracle wants to pretend that it is not a mainframe and is somehow different because they say so.
I just came from the movie WAR DOGS. It could as well have been about computer consulting firms contracting healthcare as Dept of Defense contracting. It’s all the same government incompetence.
Watching WAR DOGS it occurred to me that Bill Clinton has been the king of war dogs. Then I began wondering:
What do you call a female WAR DOG?
Air Forced dumped its product after 5 years of trying, DOE is next to toss it.... lots of down time per my experiences as a user ....
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