The Armed Forces Health Surveillance Branch (AFHSB) operates the Defense Medical Surveillance System (DMSS), a continuously expanding relational database that documents military and medical experiences of service members throughout their careers. As the central repository of medical surveillance data for the U.S. Armed Forces, DMSS contains up-to-date and historical data on diseases and medical events (e.g., hospitalizations, ambulatory visits, reportable medical events, HIV tests, and casualty data) and longitudinal data on personnel and deployments. AFHSB routinely publishes summaries of notifiable diseases, trends of illnesses of special surveillance interest and field reports describing outbreaks and case occurrences in the Medical Surveillance Monthly Report (MSMR), the principal vehicle for disseminating medical surveillance information of broad interest. Through DMSS, The AFHSB provides the sole link between the DoD Serum Repository and other databases.
Online Data
Selected Data Tables Integrated within the DMSS*
Table |
Source |
Frequency |
Rows |
Services |
Time Period |
Person |
DMDC |
Monthly |
10.3M |
All |
1990-present |
Demog1 |
DMDC |
Monthly |
143M |
All |
1990-present |
MEPS |
MEPCOM |
Monthly |
31.6M |
All |
1985-present |
Deploy2 |
DMDC CTS |
Monthly |
5.6M |
All |
1990-present |
Inpatient3 |
DHSS |
Monthly |
19.6M |
All |
1990-present |
Deploy_Forms4 |
Service feeds |
Daily |
18M |
All |
1994-present |
Outpatient3 |
DHSS |
Daily |
2.0B |
All |
1996-present |
Immunizations |
DEERS |
Daily |
118M |
All |
1980-present |
Serum |
Testing Labs |
Weekly |
58.1M |
All |
1985-present |
Casualty5 |
AFMES |
Monthly |
54.1K |
All |
1885-present |
Reportable Events6 |
DRSI |
Weekly |
651K |
All |
1994-present |
Chem and Micro |
DHSS |
Daily |
178M |
All |
2010-present |
PDTS |
POD |
Weekly |
12.3M |
All |
2014-present |
TMDS |
DHSS |
Daily |
11M |
All |
2008-present |
*Last Updated: October 2014
Notes:
- Demog contains all persons serving in the Active/Reserve/Guard components.
- Deployment rosters for major deployments beginning with Persian Gulf War.
- Medical encounters for active component, activated Reserves and National Guard, and other beneficiaries of the military healthcare system.
- Health assessment questionnaires administered before/after major deployments.
- Casualty data for active duty and activated Reserve/Guard component deaths.
- As outlined in the Armed Forces Reportable Events Guidelines.
Acronyms
- DMDC — Defense Manpower Data Center, CTS – Contingency Tracking System
- MEPCOM — Military Entrance Processing Command
- DHSS — Defense Health Services System
- DEERS — Defense Enrollment Eligibility Reporting System
- AFMES — Armed Forces Medical Examinaer System
- DRSI — Disease Reporting System Internet
- PDTS — Pharmacy Data Transaction Service
- PEC — Pharmaco Economics Center
- TMDS — Theater Medical Data Store
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