Nothing surprising here. Many hospital systems continue to allocate lackluster funding for Health IT. In fact, consideration for Electronic Health Records, Electronic MARs, and Barcoding are lacking in over 30% of hospitals.

http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9487&page=1

So who were the top dogs?

-Midland Memorial Hospital (320 Beds) in Midland, Texas;
-Clarian North Medical Center (170 Beds) in Carmel, Ind. ;
-Newport Hospital (148 Beds) in Newport, R.I. ;
-Evanston Northwestern Healthcare (858 Licensed Beds for the System) in Evanston, Ill. ;

Defenselink Article I worked with the Military Health System on the CHCS II project when I was a Pharmacy Officer in the Navy. It was a great concept, but the GUI was very slow at the time. I am not sure how AHLTA inter-relates with CHCS II, but it is great news. I look forward to learning more about the system in the coming months. The devil is in the details....