Military Health System loses nearly 5,000 records
15th Nov 2006, 02:04 GMT
The Military Health System (MHS) lost records of almost 5,000 patient encounters because of hardware and software problems with portions of the Defense Department’s Armed Forces Health Longitudinal Technology Application (AHLTA) electronic health record system, a top MHS official told Federal Computer Week. The system is also experiencing backup problems with data stored locally at military treatment facilities (MTFs), which a Defense Information Systems Agency official described as anomalies but not systemic. DISA maintains the MHS network and provides mainframe storage at one of its data centers and local storage at MTFs. Robert Foster, director of MHS’ Joint Program Executive Office, said the software problems occurred after local cache servers (LCS) were installed at 101 facilities and Northrop Grumman provided a new AHLTA software patch. The patch, designed to improve LCS performance, was successfully installed at 99 MTFs, but did not work at Fort Stewart, Ga., and Fort Drum, N.Y., when it was installed in August, Foster said. A database flag or trigger was incorrectly set at those two locations, Foster said...
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