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Definition of 'CHCS'

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  • Composite Hospital Computer System. CHCS is 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... [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&vid=02ynm7SBMC9xpUZEPk&id=8iSOaQiT21UC&q=CHCS&dq=CHCS&pgis=1]
  • *:"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 ."
  • * 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 [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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