ALHTA Database Analysis

Previously gone over in the first part of information system about ALHTA it is the Department of defense’s electronic health record in which providing the branches of the Armed Forces and their beneficiaries with quality healthcare. Brief refresher, the Armed Forces Longitudinal Technological Health Application, or will be referred to as ALTHA. ALHTA is the leading electronic health record system since the 2004 state of the union address, and with this leading effort comes with a ton of software and hardware in the mix (AHLTA.us, 2018). Having major security measures to maintain a high level of protection for ones confidential record. In the part 2 of this information system there will be a in depth analysis of the required software and hardware

The medical records that the DOD has are for the DOD only no one can access the program outside of the military so this holds back system over their civilian counterparts. A large feat in the system access to care because it is tough for provider that has a patient referred to them by the military to see what’s going on with the patient. As far as EHR for other militaries goes many of the other competing nations don’t have much of a healthcare concern for their troops. The United States has the highest budget to spend on healthcare going for about 40-50 billion dollars per fiscal year (Roy, 2012). The advantage that AHLTA has is that it has a military that spends more money on health care than any other country in the

The first improvement that needs to implemented is probably the most important when it comes to bettering the information system efficiently, is moving from one application to another. As talked about in the first analysis of AHLTA there are a ton of application to help provide care to patients, but when moving from one application to another there is always a 10 to 15 second delay for the application to pop up on the screen. By cutting the switch from application to application this would improve the time that providers needs to annotate their findings a create a plan of care, thus making more time for more patient to be seen in a day. Next adjustment that needs to be done to AHLTA is to improve the system’s ability to document patient encounters without Internet access to the servers. There should be a kick back mode that lets the users document encounters, much like AHLTA-T works, when there is no LAN connection (Army, 2017). This would allow the user to only make notes for patients but would be limited to only making notes because there would no way to check for previous encounters nor look for other services through applications. Having this as an option to document patient encounters would delete the need to make paper notes and scanning them into the EHR with messy doctor