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In 1983, the Veterans Health Administration (VHA), part of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), began to develop and implement a modular system of M-based applications across its nationwide healthcare delivery system. These applications addressed areas where automation was vitally needed to help with backlogs and heavy workloads. Few automated systems were in use at VA medical centers at this time, and the VHA desired to install systems at all 171 hospitals throughout its healthcare delivery system. Based on the state of the technology available at the time, the VHA decided that the size of the implementation and the degree to which automated solutions would need to address VA-centric workflow requirements and information needs warranted establishing an inhouse development effort. The resultant product, the Decentralized Hospital Computer Program (DHCP), is still in operation at all VA medical centers, and forms the foundation of the present VHA healthcare information environment.
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Price, V.S. (1997). Hybrid Open Systems Technology. In: Kolodner, R.M. (eds) Computerizing Large Integrated Health Networks. Computers in Health Care. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0655-2_25
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