Naval Hospital Twentynine Palms, also known as the Robert E. Bush Naval Hospital, recently implemented a new electronic health record system offering a vast improvement for protection of patient records. Reporter Heather Clisby has details…
Under direction by the Department of Defense, Naval Hospital Twentynine Palms is utilizing a new system for electronic medical records. The system, MHS GENESIS, went live last weekend replacing legacy systems, CHCS, a medical informatics system dating back to 1988, and AHLTA, a global system implemented DoD-wide between 2003 to 2006. For patients, the new system allows easier communication between care teams, and enables online dental patient appointments and prescription renewals. Though the system was first deployed in 2017 at other military hospitals, this marks the debut of the system on any Marine Corps base. The new system was first tested with the birth of a baby girl and then with a mass flu immunization event, both on base.
