Software Upgrade Knocks Out Defense Health Record System

The Military Health System shut down the AHLTA clinical data repository -- which stores 9.7 million electronic records for active-duty and retired military personnel and their families -- after experiencing problems with a commercial software package that manages data storage, a top MHS official told Nextgov.

This shutdown, in turn, forced military clinicians to use the AHLTA -- or Armed Forces Health Longitudinal Technology Application -- electronic health record system in "local mode," without access to the main record database...