CHCS

Definitions

Initialism of Composite Hospital Computer System. The DoD's version of the Veterans Administration VistA public domain software for running everything in a hospital.

abbreviation, alt-of, initialism

Examples

“If DoD completes all of its changes planned in response to our recommendations, then this action should substantially reduce⟳ the risk⟳ involved in acquiring CHCS.”

“"To date⟳ $175 million have⟳ been spent on CHCS II with about $44 million of that amount specifically for software development and the rest⟳ being spent on hardware for the test⟳ and evaluation sites."”

“2001, Peter Ramsaroop, Marion J Ball, David Beaulieu, Advancing Federal Sector Health Care: A Model⟳ for Technology Transfer⟳ Page 36 http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&vid=ISBN0387951075&id=J-f6Q25YBG0C&pg=RA1-PA36&lpg=RA1-PA36&dq=CHCS&sig=FjaDc3-lSv-kfkI0wl5v02opThQ "The selected CHCS architecture was to be decentralized at the hospital level, with a mainframe computer in each hospital linked to its associated clinics by a communications network."”

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