MEDICAL COMMUNITY OF INTEREST (MED COI)

Overview

Med COI is an enterprise VPN service providing access to the Medical Community of Interest VPN for authorized users of the Department of Defense (DoD) and Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). This VPN service provides mission partners the ability to connect to the Med COI through an MPLS layer 3 VPN.

DoD and/or VA Med COI approving authority can only authorize connection to this VPN. This service is available as part of the DSS at any DSS location that includes NIPRNet IP Data. Connection Approval Process (CAP) accreditation is required and the process is significantly faster and requires less paperwork to complete. Use of a virtual interface is approved but not required.

The Med COI VPN has been established under the authority of the Secretary of Defense ACTION MEMO dated 25 Feb 2013. This is part of the integrated Electronic Health Record (iEHR) initiative between the DoD and VA. The VPN ID for the Med COI service is provided by DISA and will always be the same for every mission partner: Med COI Service VPN ID: DKL300251. DDOE will assign this VPN ID to all mission partners requesting Med COI Service.

NOTE: Med COI service is a “Medical Community Only” service. Mission partners ordering this service will be connected to the DISN but will only have access to the Med COI enclave set up between DoD and VA. No access to DoD or VA networks is available.

Value to Our Mission Partners

Enable consolidation of VA and MHS networks and allow for integrated Electronic Health Record.

Features

DISA managed VPN using Multi-Protocol Labeled Switching (MPLS)
Provides privacy and limits access to IP data to VPN members only
Connections available at Unclassified-Aggregation Router (U-AR), Unclassified-Provider Edge router (U-PE), or Internet Protocol Transport-Provider Edge router (IPT-PE).
Circuit connection to DISN can be physical or virtual. Virtual connections are supported on a limited number of interface types. Contact the DGSC for the list of supported interfaces.

Rates

Service rate information can be found on the DISA Direct Home page at https://www.disadirect.disa.mil under Inventory and Billing.

Service Support

1-844-DISA-HLP (347-2457), Option 2
disa.dccc@mail.mil
disa.scott.conus.mbx.dccc@mail.smil.mil

Terms of Reference

Service Performance	Service performance is measured, monitored, and reported as defined in the Telecommunications Service Level Agreement, which can be found on the Telecommunications Service Level Agreement page.
Connection Approval	There are services that require a connection approval. Information regarding connection approvals can be found at the Enterprise Connection website for unclassified users, and at https://www.disa.smil.mil/connect website for classified users.
Customer Ordering Guide	For step-by-step information on how to order VPN Service, access the ordering guide available to mission partners. This is the Establish & Connect to a VPN consolidated guide detailing the steps to Establish a VPN and the steps to Connect to an Established VPN.

Additional Information

Service Lifecycle Status	Maintain & Sustain
Security Classification	Up to and including Sensitive but Unclassified (SBU)