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Informatics is the new normal in health care delivery | Health.mil

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Informatics is the new normal in health care delivery

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

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



ARmy Lt. Col. Eli Seeley (right), chief health information officer for the Regional Health Command Europe, discussed the critical role of informatics in health care during the "Informatics in the MHS" session at the Defense Health Information Technology Symposium in Orlando, Florida, on Aug. 3. 
Seeley said informatics, the science of processing data, is the new normal and the Military Health System will use the science to find better patient outcomes. He was joined by Col. Ray Jeter (left), chief medical information officer in the Office of the Air Force Surgeon General and Navy Capt. James Ellzy, deputy program executive officer in the Defense Healthcare Management Systems office.


Keeping IT budgets under control part of discussion at DHITS

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.
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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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 Accessible Version

Technical Document
7/28/2016
The Long Range Technical Architecture (LRTA) Strategy is a dynamic research and development 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.
Related Topics: Technology | Health IT Research and Innovation | Addressing Near-Term Needs through Advanced Technology Research | Health IT Challenge | Leaning Forward with Innovative Health Technologies | Joint Integrated Test and Evaluation Center

Long Range Technical Architecture Strategy Interactive Version

Technical Document
7/28/2016
The Long Range Technical Architecture (LRTA) Strategy is a dynamic research and development 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.
Related Topics: Technology | Health IT Research and Innovation | Addressing Near-Term Needs through Advanced Technology Research | Health IT Challenge | Leaning Forward with Innovative Health Technologies | Joint Integrated Test and Evaluation Center

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.
Related Topics: Health Readiness | Technology | Health IT Research and Innovation Strategy | Innovation

MHS GENESIS Brand Style Guide, Version 9.0

Publication
7/1/2016
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.
Related Topics: Military Health System Electronic Health Record | Technology | MHS GENESIS Branding

Navy developing mobile app to help prevent prescription medication misuse

Article
6/2/2016
Naval Health Research Center Logo
The app is intended to support patients where they do not have immediate access to their health care providers but have questions about appropriate use of their prescription medication
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Web, mobile technology helps MHS beneficiaries assess, improve mental health

Article
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Breathe2Relax, a mobile app, teaches how to reduce tension by breathing from the diaphragm, a deeper type of breathing that helps to induce a calming response in widely different circumstances.
DHA mental health professional talks mobile and web technologies that are available to beneficiaries
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Scientists probe Traumatic Brain Injury effects at research lab

Article
5/20/2016
Sensors attached to a translucent model skull are used to measure explosive shock velocity and pressure at the Army Research Laboratory Weapons and Materials Research Directorate at Aberdeen Proving Ground in Aberdeen, Maryland. Data captured by the sensors are used to assist studies in traumatic brain injuries. (DoD photo by EJ Hersom)
The Army Research Laboratory’s specialized experiments offer repeatable parameters to attain more reliable data and to complement strides made by the Department of Veterans Affairs and the medical and academic communities
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William Beaumont Army Medical Center first DoD hospital to use new stent graft

Article
5/11/2016
US Army Medicine Logo
William Beaumont Army Medical Center became the first military treatment facility to use newly FDA approved “off-the-shelf” aortic branch device
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MHS partnering with Social Security Administration to improve electronic medical data sharing

Article
5/6/2016
Over the past decade, DoD and SSA have made substantial progress toward enhancing benefit support to all Service members, Veterans, and most notably to our Wounded Warriors.
DoD and SSA are committed to improving the timely processing of disability claims and access to Social Security benefits for all Service members, Veterans and eligible beneficiaries
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New DoD mobile app helps diffuse nightmares for better sleep

Article
5/5/2016
Mental Health Month graphic
Dream EZ is the first mobile app that uses imagery rehearsal therapy to address nightmares
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59th MDW ECMO team: Delivering life saving medical care across the globe

Article
5/3/2016
Members of the 59th Medical Wing Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation transport team connect a patient to an ECMO system for transport from Lafayette General Medical Center, Louisiana, to San Antonio Military Medical Center, Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston, Texas.
The global Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation team is bedded down at the San Antonio Military Medical Center on nearby JBSA-Fort Sam Houston
Related Topics: Access to Health Care | Military Hospitals and Clinics | Quality and Safety of Health Care | Technology

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