Lt. Col. (Dr.) Charles Motsinger likes to tell a story that illustrates how the Air Force harnesses the life-saving power of health IT. A primary-care medical technician was taking a standard medical ...

Defense isn't taking advantage of an opportunity to revamp the applications behind a much-maligned electronic health records system. Top docs and field clinicians appear to agree on a diagnosis for ...

A week ago, FierceEMR reported that the man who would be top doc at the Pentagon--Dr. Jonathan Woodson, President Obama's nominee for assistant secretary of defense for health affairs--wants the ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. As dedicated What's fans know, AHLTA, the Defense Department's electronic health record system, used to be known as an acronym standing ...

HP Enterprise Services has lost its contract for improvements to the Armed Forces Health Longitudinal Technology Application (AHLTA) digital medical record system. The company confirmed the ...

FAIRFAX, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The TriCare Management Activity (TMA) Contract Operations Division (COD) has awarded Evolvent Technologies, a wholly-owned subsidiary of ManTech International ...

The Department of Defense’s $4 billion electronic health record system, AHLTA, is so unreliable and difficult to use that military physicians list it among their top three reasons for leaving service.

Navy Lt. Lauren Alderson, a family medicine physician at Naval Health Clinic Oak Harbor much prefers the Defense Department’s new electronic health record system MHS Genesis, even in its testing stage ...

Last fall the U.S. Military unveiled AHLTA, the electronic health record (EHR) used for the Military Health System (MHS). Because it is a model of how to make interoperable electronic health records ...

Part one of a two-part series (Access part two): Three high-ranking officers of the Army, Navy and Air Force health services took turns before a House joint subcommittee hearing last week to criticize ...

The Military Health Service hopes to make a decision next week on an Electronic Medical Record (EMR) system which could sunset the VA's open source VistA system. The decision is being taken due to the ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. In February 2007, William Winkenwerder Jr. announced he was stepping down from his ...