- The MHS is dedicated to staying on the cutting edge of military medical innovation to protect, support, and advance the health and welfare of our military family.
- Innovation in the MHS is focused on improving patient outcomes and experience, and forwarding the mission of supporting a ready medical force and a medically ready force.
- Organizations and individuals across the MHS are on the forefront of developing leading edge medical techniques, especially projecting higher levels of care in austere environments.
- MHS research and development has achieved innovative medical breakthroughs that have led to treatments and technology used throughout the world.
Innovation and Ready Reliable Care
- Ready Reliable Care is the MHS effort to advance on a single coordinated path towards highly reliable behaviors and processes, driving innovation across all sectors of MHS administration, health care delivery, quality and safety.
- Applying Ready Reliable Care principles leads to new and improved ways of improving patient care and experience.
- High reliability is gauged both in measurable improvement in outcomes and a culture shaped by each individual’s behavior and mindset.
- Ready Reliable Care is not a separate line of effort—it is part of everything we do and every decision we make.
- To provide the best possible care, MHS providers and staff never settle for the status quo. They actively look for ways to innovate and make our daily operations safer and more efficient, and see those opportunities through to completion – that’s what it means to demonstrate Ready Reliable Care.
Health Innovation and Total Force Fitness
- Health innovation affects total body wellness and looks at all aspects of health—not just physical health—to enhance the readiness, performance, health, and wellness of service members and their families.
- Health innovation impacts several domains of Total Force Fitness like regenerative medicine, psychological health, and combat casualty care that improved the ability of service members to enhance their performance and lead full, healthy lives.
- Innovations across the eight domains of Total Force Fitness help optimize the military communities’ ability to better understand, assess, and maintain body, mind, and spirit.
- Patients are the heart and soul of our mission. The commitment to Total Force Fitness ensures our nation’s service members, veterans, and their families are healthy, safe, and ready to take on the next challenge.