Overview
When it comes to health technology, the DHA is always looking for ways to better capture and exchange health care data. Our goal is to make sure our research efforts are helping meet or exceed the needs of the military health community. This means working with people, like you, to identify IT-enabled solutions that can be researched and one day transferred into the hands of DoD health care providers, worldwide.
How to Get Involved
Our goal is to find out what works and how to get that practice, solution, or tool in the hands of military healthcare providers, worldwide. So we need your help.
- Browse our Technology Investment Roadmap: Gain a high-level understanding of what technologies the DHA is looking to invest in as part of our Long-Range Technical Architecture (LRTA) Strategy. You can also browse our Interactive Technology Investment Roadmap.
- Submit Your Solution(s): Looking for a more formal way to have your voice heard?
- For non-MHS stakeholders, fill out our Vendor Information Form. The form provides a standard way to collect your ideas, problem statements, and/or proposed solution sets. Describe the problem it addresses. Outline your to-be vision. We want to hear what's on your mind.
- For MHS stakeholders, visit the DHA SharePoint page (CAC-enabled) and search for the "MHS Submission Portal".
- Participate in an Idea Challenge: The Joint Program Committee-1 (JPC-1) Health IT and Informatics (HITI) Steering Committee focuses on research in the areas of theater/operational medicine, health operations resourcing, healthcare services, and enterprise information. If you have an idea that supports any of these research areas, we want to hear from you. View the Congressionally-Directed Medical Research Programs' (CDMRP) website or email us for programmatic-related questions. These structured challenges let us leverage resources like you to find IT-approaches to specific pain points or topics. Challenges typically have a targeted subject and timeframe. Learn more about JPC-1 HITI's research areas.
- Browse our HIT Research Directory (as of April 2016): Not sure what already exists? Browse our Health IT R&D Directory and see what others are up to. The HIT R&D Directory defines processes, procedures, and methods for the information collection, generation, distribution, storage, and disposition. The Directory lists more than 450 research projects across the enterprise spanning 11 sponsoring agencies. By having high visibility into research efforts across the MHS, we will be able to make smarter investments on future R&D efforts.
- Learn about our Education Partnership Outreach Efforts: Are you a Federal research lab or member of Academia interested in partnering with the DHA? Take a look at an overview of what services the DHA can provide and how you can collaborate with us to enhance health IT. We offer Educational Partnership Agreeements (EPAs) and Memorandum of Agreements (MOAs) with academic institutions. Read about the purpose and benefits of DHA-sponsored EPAs and MOAs to find out if one is right for you.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do you have a basic question about IATD? View the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) below or contact us. These FAQs serve as a guide to answer basic questions about our mission, activities and resources.
Q2:
What is the mission of IATD?
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The mission of the IATD is to rapidly forecast, identify, evaluate, research and transition high-quality Health IT research initiatives that provide tangible Health IT research benefits to our military community; Provide technical guidance and strategy to accelerate medical technologies and new standards that can be applied in theater or in the clinical facilities.
Q6:
How is the IATD working to increase transparency of HIT research initiatives across the enterprise?
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The IATD is committed to ensuring a consistent and centrally managed approach of HIT research initiatives. IATD has developed a process to identify, research, develop, test and evaluate innovative solutions that benefit the MHS enterprise. This streamlined evaluation process will increase transparency into HIT research initiatives and reduce parallel efforts underway. Be sure to view the latest snapshot of HIT R&D projects by checking out our HIT R&D Directory.
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