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Bono to AFCEA: New electronic health record is key for future of engaging military health patients

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10/14/2016

Navy Vice Adm. Raquel Bono, director of the Defense Health Agency, said military members have to be ready to go anywhere in the world on short notice. To help solve the complexity of care with that readiness aspect, Bono pointed to the Military Health System’s new electronic health record, MHS GENESIS, as key to helping conversations between doctors and patients, no matter where people are. (Courtesy photo)

Navy Vice Adm. Raquel Bono, director of the Defense Health Agency, spoke at the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association’s Health IT Day 2016, a gathering of approximately 1,000 federal government workers, including the Departments of Defense, Veterans Affairs, and Health and Human Services, as well as private IT industry representatives.

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General Leonard Wood Army Community Hospital demonstrates new era of virtual Army Medicine

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9/8/2016

Sonja Lawson, a registered nurse at Baptist Health hospital in Little Rock, Arkansas, waves at the monitor to Kristen Davis and Thomas Hedrick, registered nurses in General Leonard Wood Army Community Hospital's Intensive Care Unit.

The eICU is a safe, highly integrated and choreographed system that establishes a long-distance, high-functioning and secure telemedicine connection

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Naval Medical Center Portsmouth's simulation center celebrates 10 years of training

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9/7/2016

Patrick Gravel speaks to visitors about the combat simulators that train healthcare providers to respond to battlefield trauma. (U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Rebecca Perron)

The Healthcare Simulation and Bioskills Training Center at Naval Medical Center Portsmouth celebrated their 10th anniversary

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MHS officials delay MHS GENESIS release to improve user experience

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9/6/2016

Military Health System officials cited an aggressive schedule and a need to ensure best solution for a slight delay in the rollout of MHS GENESIS

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Airmen practice Ebola safety during Exercise Mobility Solace

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8/24/2016

A Transportation Isolation System is loaded onto a C-17 Globemaster III aircraft during Exercise Mobilty Solace at Joint Base Charleston, South Carolina.

Airmen flew an aeromedical evacuation of a simulated Ebola patient from Joint Base Charleston, South Carolina, to Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, during Exercise Mobility Solace

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MHS GENESIS Brand Style Guide, Version 10.0

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8/15/2016

The purpose of this style guide is to establish the MHS GENESIS brand guidelines and educate its users to observe the brand standards. Branding is a key supporting element for communication, training and deployment activities.

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Enterprise Intelligence Branch/MHS Population Health Portal

Presentation

8/9/2016

The first part of this presentation discusses the Enterprise Intelligence Branch, which supports the MHS strategic goals through delivery of timely, relevant, and actionable information toa ll levels of the organization. The second part describes the MHS Poulation Health Portal and shows examples.

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Keeping IT budgets under control part of discussion at DHITS

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8/3/2016

Tricia Cantu (standing), chief of the Defense Health Agency’s Health IT Investment Branch, discussed standardizing health IT processes to improve efficiency and save money.

Keeping IT budgets under control part of discussion at DHITS

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DHITS: IT provides solutions for access to care

Article

8/3/2016

Col. Daniel Kral, director of the Telehealth & Advanced Technology Research Center for the Army’s Medical Research & Material Command, Ft. Detrick, Maryland, discussed how health information technology improves access to care.

Attendees told to look to the future when planning for it

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Informatics is the new normal in health care delivery

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8/3/2016

Lt. Col. Eli Seeley (right), chief health information officer for the Regional Health Command Europe, discussed the critical role of informatics in health care.

Informatics big part of finding better patient outcomes

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Cyber Awareness Campaign stresses importance of protecting electronic health information

Article

8/1/2016

Are you cyberfit? Empower Yourself to Protect Your Information

The Department of Defense is launching the Empower the Patient Cybersecurity Awareness Campaign in August to share ways Military Health System beneficiaries can protect their personal health information

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Long Range Technical Architecture Strategy Interactive Version

Technical Document

7/28/2016

The Long Range Technical Architecture (LRTA) Strategy is a dynamic technology investment roadmap to help guide and optimize the MHS’ investments over the next decade, based on data-driven analyses. The LRTA links business needs to technical solutions and provides enterprise 'knowledge' through data democratization.

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Long Range Technical Architecture Strategy Accessible Version

Technical Document

7/28/2016

The Long Range Technical Architecture (LRTA) Strategy is a dynamic technology investment roadmap to help guide and optimize the MHS’ investments over the next decade, based on data-driven analyses. The LRTA links business needs to technical solutions and provides enterprise 'knowledge' through data democratization.

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Vendor Information Form

Form/Template

7/27/2016

The Vendor Information Form provides a standard way to collect your ideas, problem statements, and/or proposed solution sets for defense health IT.

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Advances in health information technology and Internet of Things changing health care delivery

Article

7/6/2016

Army Lt. Col. Mark Mellott, branch chief of the Defense Health Agency’s Health Information Technology Innovation and Advanced Technology Development Division, sees the Internet of Things as ‘the perfect storm’ when it comes to changing knowledge, attitudes and beliefs regarding how healthcare is administered to beneficiaries.

Last summer, Army Lt. Col. Mark Mellott discussed how the Internet of Things (IoT) has the potential to change the dynamic of health care. In many ways that potential has now become a reality.

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