CHCS

CHCs English Proper noun en Composite Hospital Computer System. The DoD's version of the Veterans Administration VistA public domain software for running everything in a hospital. 1986, United States Congress (House) Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Deptartment of Defense, Department of Defense Appropriations for 1987: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee... "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." en 2002 S. Krishna 'Information Technology Business Models for Quality Health Care http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&vid=ISBN1586033077&id=nyI6sOxyzZUC&pg=PA164&lpg=PA164&dq=CHCS&sig=Xl73WYRwQjK1KMTz-qDQ1PDDiG0 "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 "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."