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Defense Health Agency’s AHLTA/CHCS Sustainment Re-Compete

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FALLS CHURCH, Va., --  Recent reports published regarding the Defense Health Agency's solicitation, "AHLTA/CHCS Sustainment Re-Compete", which provide support to the DoD's current electronic health record systems (AHLTA and the Composite Health Care System, or CHCS) prompted some confusion as to whether the Department of Defense has modified its plans to replace the current EHR. This contract is targeted simply to sustain the DoD's current EHR systems and in no way influences the schedule and delivery of its replacement. The sustainment contract has a single base period of five months and four individual option years that can be exercised as needed to align with the schedule of the replacement EHR.

Another point that requires further clarification is our requirement to move to a "centralized hub" that will reduce the need for the current level of on-site labor support to the Military Treatment Facilities. We are leveraging recently deployed technology, which allows remote access to servers and virtually all routine server actions performed by technicians on-site (updates, backups, etc.). Once the local systems administration tasks are performed remotely, the Military Health System will be able to reduce its contractor requirements physically located at the MTFs to support AHLTA and CHCS. In addition, moving to a centralized hub allows remote access to resolve issues that arise in the off-hours, reducing the need for site personnel to return to the hospital and/or the need for higher-level IT support to resolve IT issues with CHCS and AHLTA.

The military's current EHR supports the military's medical community allowing clinicians to accurately document, store and maintain health care data provided to 9.6 million health care beneficiaries. DoD continues moving forward with efforts to acquire a state of the market EHR system that that will be interoperable with the Department of Veteran's Affairs and other commercial systems. We remain committed to ensuring Service Members receive the health care and benefits they deserve. We look forward to receiving proposals from our vendor community to partner with and help us maintain our current EHR while work for our new EHR is underway. For more information, or clarification of the AHLTA/CHCS Sustainment Re-Compete, review the solicitation or contact our Contract Operations Division.

A draft RFP for the new EHR acquisition will be released during the final week of January 2014. Get more information on the recent Industry Day conducted by clicking here Defense Health Management System Modernization.