“Navy Lt. Lauren Alderson, a family medicine physician at Naval Health Clinic Oak Harbor, Wash., much prefers the Defense Department’s new electronic health record system MHS Genesis, even in its testing stage, over the legacy AHLTA system it has replaced, so far, at four military medical facilities in Washington state.”
“MHS Genesis still needs capabilities added, software kinks eliminated and design changes made to achieve optimal workflows for every medical specialty. But it will improve staff efficiency over time and has improved patient safety…”
“In January Rep. Phil Roe, R-Tenn., chairman of the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee, visited the first MHS Genesis test site, the hospital on Fairchild Air Force Base, Wash., and said the Department of Veterans Affairs might have made a mistake choosing to piggyback onto Genesis to replace its own legacy system.”
“Roe told me Fairchild physicians complained that so little patient data transferred to Genesis from AHLTA that providers would have to rely on both systems for years….”
“Alderson, however, said that hasn’t been her experience…The biggest challenge for care providers, said Col. Michael L. Place…” Read the full article here.
Source: Despite start-up challenges, MHS Genesis gains in user support – By Tom Philpott, April 5, 2018. Stars and Stripes.
