AHLTA: ARMED FORCES HEALTH LONGITUDINAL TECHNOLOGY APPLICATION |
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1. What does AHLTA stand for? Armed Forces Health Longitudinal Technology
Application.
2. What type of system is AHLTA? A global Electronic Health Record (EHR)
system used by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD).
3. When was AHLTA fully implemented throughout the DoD? By December
2006.
4. How many beneficiaries does AHLTA service? Approximately 9.1 to 9.2
million beneficiaries.
5. What was AHLTA previously known as? Composite Health Care System II
(CHCS II).
6. Which Presidential Directive led to the development of AHLTA? A 1997
Presidential Directive focusing on the need for a centralized, longitudinal
patient record for military personnel.
7. What office originally developed AHLTA? The Clinical Information
Technology Program Office (CITPO).
8. What happened to CITPO in 2008? It was combined with the TMIP-J
Program Office to form the Defense Health Information Management System
(DHIMS).
9. How many Military Treatment Facilities (MTFs) does AHLTA link? 481 MTFs
worldwide.
10. What makes AHLTA unique compared to private sector EHRs? Its early
EHR adoption date, Central Data Repository, use in operational medicine, and
global implementation.
11. Is AHLTA an acronym? According to the DoD, "AHLTA" was never an
acronym, but is rather the system's only name.
,12. What system does AHLTA supplement? The Composite Health Care
System (CHCS).
13. What is CHCS primarily used for? Practice management (scheduling and
finance) with Computerized Provider Order Entry.
14. When did worldwide deployment of AHLTA begin? January 2004.
15. How much historical health information was entered for each beneficiary
upon EHR creation? More than 2 years of historical health information.
16. What facilitated continuity of care during AHLTA's initial deployment?
The transfer of historical information from legacy systems.
17. What was the original planned deployment date for AHLTA? 1999.
18. Why was the original deployment delayed? Failure to meet initial
performance requirements and changes to technical and functional
requirements.
19. What was the revised deployment timeline? July 2003 to September 2007.
20. What was the estimated life-cycle cost of AHLTA through 2017? $3.8
billion.
21. What was the estimated life-cycle cost revised to in 2010? Approximately
$5 billion.
22. What was Block 1 of AHLTA? The foundation system providing real-time
ambulatory encounter documentation through a graphical user interface.
23. When was Block 1 fully deployed? By December 2006.
24. How many MHS care providers were using Block 1 by December 2006?
More than 55,000.
25. What did Block 2 (AHLTA version 3.3) include? Robust dental
documentation and optometry orders management capabilities (SRTS).
26. When was Block 2 released? December 2008.
27. What happened to Block 3? It was terminated due to performance
problems and exceeding the 5-year limit for achieving initial operational
capability.
, 28. What functionality was Block 3 supposed to include? Laboratory,
radiology, and pharmacy modules.
29. What happened to Block 4? Plans were terminated in May 2005, with
intent to move inpatient functionality into Block 3.
30. What was the "stabilization effort"? An effort to improve AHLTA's speed,
availability, and usability from fiscal year 2010 through 2015.
31. What was the estimated cost of the stabilization effort? $826.3 million.
32. What version of AHLTA included ICD-10 support? Version 3.3.8.
33. When did DoD begin taking bids to overhaul AHLTA? 2013.
34. What was the value of the contract to overhaul the system? $4.3 billion,
10-year contract.
35. Which consortium was awarded the contract in July 2015? The Leidos
Partnership for Defense Health (Cerner, Accenture Federal Services, and
Leidos).
36. What system is replacing AHLTA? MHS GENESIS.
37. When are AHLTA capabilities expected to be fully subsumed by MHS
GENESIS? No later than October 2026.
38. What is AHLTA-Theater? The version of AHLTA used in deployed
environments like Iraq and Afghanistan.
39. What is HALO? A lightweight bridging solution designed to work with
AHLTA-T in deployed environments with low bandwidth.
40. How large is the HALO application? 90 megabytes.
SECTION 2: CLINICAL DATA REPOSITORY (CDR) (Questions 41-70)
41. What is the Clinical Data Repository (CDR)? The central storage for patient
health care history for all service members and beneficiaries.
42. Where is all AHLTA data stored? In the AHLTA CDR.
43. What contributed patients to the CDR when it was created? Over 100
CHCS host systems, DEERS, and AHLTA-Theater.
100% VERIFIED EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS | LATEST 2026/2027 VERSION
(PASS GUARANTEE)
1. What does AHLTA stand for? Armed Forces Health Longitudinal Technology
Application.
2. What type of system is AHLTA? A global Electronic Health Record (EHR)
system used by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD).
3. When was AHLTA fully implemented throughout the DoD? By December
2006.
4. How many beneficiaries does AHLTA service? Approximately 9.1 to 9.2
million beneficiaries.
5. What was AHLTA previously known as? Composite Health Care System II
(CHCS II).
6. Which Presidential Directive led to the development of AHLTA? A 1997
Presidential Directive focusing on the need for a centralized, longitudinal
patient record for military personnel.
7. What office originally developed AHLTA? The Clinical Information
Technology Program Office (CITPO).
8. What happened to CITPO in 2008? It was combined with the TMIP-J
Program Office to form the Defense Health Information Management System
(DHIMS).
9. How many Military Treatment Facilities (MTFs) does AHLTA link? 481 MTFs
worldwide.
10. What makes AHLTA unique compared to private sector EHRs? Its early
EHR adoption date, Central Data Repository, use in operational medicine, and
global implementation.
11. Is AHLTA an acronym? According to the DoD, "AHLTA" was never an
acronym, but is rather the system's only name.
,12. What system does AHLTA supplement? The Composite Health Care
System (CHCS).
13. What is CHCS primarily used for? Practice management (scheduling and
finance) with Computerized Provider Order Entry.
14. When did worldwide deployment of AHLTA begin? January 2004.
15. How much historical health information was entered for each beneficiary
upon EHR creation? More than 2 years of historical health information.
16. What facilitated continuity of care during AHLTA's initial deployment?
The transfer of historical information from legacy systems.
17. What was the original planned deployment date for AHLTA? 1999.
18. Why was the original deployment delayed? Failure to meet initial
performance requirements and changes to technical and functional
requirements.
19. What was the revised deployment timeline? July 2003 to September 2007.
20. What was the estimated life-cycle cost of AHLTA through 2017? $3.8
billion.
21. What was the estimated life-cycle cost revised to in 2010? Approximately
$5 billion.
22. What was Block 1 of AHLTA? The foundation system providing real-time
ambulatory encounter documentation through a graphical user interface.
23. When was Block 1 fully deployed? By December 2006.
24. How many MHS care providers were using Block 1 by December 2006?
More than 55,000.
25. What did Block 2 (AHLTA version 3.3) include? Robust dental
documentation and optometry orders management capabilities (SRTS).
26. When was Block 2 released? December 2008.
27. What happened to Block 3? It was terminated due to performance
problems and exceeding the 5-year limit for achieving initial operational
capability.
, 28. What functionality was Block 3 supposed to include? Laboratory,
radiology, and pharmacy modules.
29. What happened to Block 4? Plans were terminated in May 2005, with
intent to move inpatient functionality into Block 3.
30. What was the "stabilization effort"? An effort to improve AHLTA's speed,
availability, and usability from fiscal year 2010 through 2015.
31. What was the estimated cost of the stabilization effort? $826.3 million.
32. What version of AHLTA included ICD-10 support? Version 3.3.8.
33. When did DoD begin taking bids to overhaul AHLTA? 2013.
34. What was the value of the contract to overhaul the system? $4.3 billion,
10-year contract.
35. Which consortium was awarded the contract in July 2015? The Leidos
Partnership for Defense Health (Cerner, Accenture Federal Services, and
Leidos).
36. What system is replacing AHLTA? MHS GENESIS.
37. When are AHLTA capabilities expected to be fully subsumed by MHS
GENESIS? No later than October 2026.
38. What is AHLTA-Theater? The version of AHLTA used in deployed
environments like Iraq and Afghanistan.
39. What is HALO? A lightweight bridging solution designed to work with
AHLTA-T in deployed environments with low bandwidth.
40. How large is the HALO application? 90 megabytes.
SECTION 2: CLINICAL DATA REPOSITORY (CDR) (Questions 41-70)
41. What is the Clinical Data Repository (CDR)? The central storage for patient
health care history for all service members and beneficiaries.
42. Where is all AHLTA data stored? In the AHLTA CDR.
43. What contributed patients to the CDR when it was created? Over 100
CHCS host systems, DEERS, and AHLTA-Theater.
