Here you will find information about technology in the Military Health System. Health information systems help your providers make decisions and keep records, save money on supplies, along with many other tasks. This section also contains information about how new systems are designed and current systems improved.
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Article
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)](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20161020034814im_/https://www.health.mil/~/media/MHS/Photos/afcea.ashx?mw=120)
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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Article
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.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20161020034814im_/https://www.health.mil/~/media/MHS/Photos/GLWACH%20eICU.ashx?mw=120)
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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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)](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20161020034814im_/https://www.health.mil/~/media/MHS/Photos/Healthcare%20Simulation%20and%20Bioskills%20Training%20Center.ashx?mw=120)
The Healthcare Simulation and Bioskills Training Center at Naval Medical Center Portsmouth celebrated their 10th anniversary
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Article
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.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20161020034814im_/https://www.health.mil/~/media/MHS/Photos/Transportation%20Isolation%20System.ashx?mw=120)
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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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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Article
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.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20161020034814im_/https://www.health.mil/~/media/MHS/Photos/DHITS%20Cantu%20HIT%20photo.ashx?mw=120)
Keeping IT budgets under control part of discussion at DHITS
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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.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20161020034814im_/https://www.health.mil/~/media/MHS/Photos/DHITS%20Telehealth%20photo.ashx?mw=120)
Attendees told to look to the future when planning for it
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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.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20161020034814im_/https://www.health.mil/~/media/MHS/Photos/DHITS%20Informaticsphoto.ashx?mw=120)
Informatics big part of finding better patient outcomes
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Article
8/1/2016
![Are you cyberfit? Empower Yourself to Protect Your Information](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20161020034814im_/https://www.health.mil/~/media/MHS/Photos/cyberfit.ashx?mw=120)
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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