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MHS GENESIS has been all the buzz at the Defense Health Information Technology Symposium in Orlando, Florida. Military Health System leaders updated attendees of the conference about the latest on the new electronic health records keeping system that is being rolled out starting in the Pacific Northwest at the end of this year.
DHA cybersecurity experts discussed importance of centralizing cybersecurity across DHA and the services during the Defense Health Information Technology Symposium in Orlando, Florida, Aug. 3.
Tricia Cantu (standing), chief of the Investment Branch of the Defense Health Agency’s Health Information Technology directorate, talked about standardizing health IT processes to improve efficiency and save money. Cantu spoke along with (l-r) Col. Jack Leech, deputy chief information officer for the Army’s Surgeon General; Col. Ray Jeter, chief medical information officer, Air Force Medical Service; and Cmdr. Gabriel Brown with the Bureau of Navy Medicine during the Defense Health Information Technology Symposium in Orlando, Florida, on Aug. 3, 2016. The panelists said the Military Health System’s new electronic records-keeping system MHS GENESIS will integrate IT platforms across the services and help save costs.
Col. Daniel Kral, director of the Telehealth & Advanced Technology Research Center for the Army’s Medical Research & Material Command, Fort Detrick, Maryland, discussed how health information technology improves access to care.
Vice Adm. Raquel C. Bono (center), Director of the Defense Health Agency, and Rear Adm. Brian S. Pecha (right), U.S. Pacific Command surgeon, listen to General Tan Sri Dato’ Sri (Dr.) Hj Zulkifeli bin Mohd Zin (left), Malaysia’s Chief of Defence, during a press conference at the opening ceremony of the Asia Pacific Military Health Exchange. (Department of Defense photo by William Sallette)
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.
Guy Kiyokawa, deputy director for the Defense Health Agency (far right) is joined by (from left to right) Brig. Gen. Robert Miller, Air Force Medical Operations Agency; Dr. Michael P. Malanoski, executive director for the Navy’s Bureau of Medicine and Surgery; and Brig. Gen. John Cho, the deputy chief of staff for Support, United States Army Medical Command at the Defense Health Information Technology Symposium (DHITS) in Orlando, Florida on Aug. 2, 2016.
Richard W. Thomas, MD, DDS, was officially sworn in as the sixth President of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in a small ceremony on the University campus, July 25, 2016.
Army Col. Louis Finelli (right) receives the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System guidon from Navy Rear Adm. Colin Chinn, Defense Health Agency director of research, development and acquisition, during a Change of Directorship Ceremony July 18, 2016, at the Landings on Dover Air Force Base, Delaware. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman William Johnson)
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.
Dr. Karen Guice, acting assistant secretary of Defense for Health Affairs, addresses the National Academies of Sciences Forum on Aging, Disability, and Independence in Washington, D.C., June 27, 2016.
Army Col. Craig Shriver is director of the John P. Murtha Cancer Center at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, and professor of surgery at Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences.
DHA Director Vice Adm. Raquel Bono speaks to attendees of the Global Health Strategies for Security Course at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in downtown Washington, DC. (Courtesy photo)
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