US Defense Department Leads the Way
By Staff Reporters
According to Peter Bauxbaum on May 13, 2009, the Defense Health Information Management System [DHIMS] is in the process of deploying AHLTA [Armed Forces Health Longitudinal Technology Application] Dental; a module eDR included with the new AHLTA 3.3 release.
It is the U.S. military’s first integrated dental and medical electronic health record.
Link: http://govhealthit.com/articles/2009/05/13/dod-electronic-dental-record.aspx?s=GHIT_190509
Assessment
And so, when will eHRs for osteopaths [eOsteoRs], podiatrists [ePodRs] and optometrists [eOptRs] become available? Is this an occasion when the military is an early HIT adopter?
Conclusion
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