In its mission to create a better and more “patient-centered” health care delivery system, the Defense Health Agency is looking to new digital health technologies like artificial intelligence, and machine learning by using data to power these technologies.

Team members with the U.S. Army Medical Materiel Development Activity are supporting the U.S. Army-wide Best Squad Competition this week and next, providing real-time health and performance data to the competition’s supervisors at Fort Stewart, Georgia.

U.S. military members from Kismayo, Somalia, partnered with the Kenya Defence Forces and Somali National Army Danab Forces to bring medical supplies and treatment to a local village as part of a medical civic action program clinic on July 1, 2023, in Dolsan Village, Somalia.

Pacific Partnership 2023 has concluded its mission stop in Kuantan, Malaysia, during a closing ceremony hosted aboard the Harpers-Ferry class dock landing ship at USS Pearl Harbor on Sept. 15, 2023.

As the Defense Health Agency and Department of Defense military medical treatment facilities continue their rollout of the new MHS GENESIS system across the globe, medical services, to include access to care and pharmacy, will be temporarily constrained.

In August 2023, the Federal Electronic Health Record Modernization office expanded its joint health information exchange to include participation in Carequality, a framework enabling health data sharing between and among networks.

The new Military Health System Medical Library portal leads to extensive resources to help clinicians with the most up-to-date, evidence-based data for their patient care.

Fifteen New York Army National Guard medics and physician assistants traveled to Brazil to participate in South America’s largest military humanitarian response exercise, Aug. 12-18.

The annual Medical Simulation Expo was held at the Defense Health Agency headquarters on Thursday, August 3, 2023.

The U.S. Navy’s Expeditionary Medical Facility Juliet completed 61 orthopedic procedures during its first orthopedic surgical partnership mission with Honduran health care professionals. The effort was conducted at the Level 1 Hospital Escuela in the U.S. Southern Command, Aug. 14-18, 2023.

The first in a four-part series that explores leading practices for the MHS around developing and implementing a digital health strategy along the care continuum.

U.S. Naval Forces Europe-Africa Force Surgeon held an operational entomology event in support of the Africa Malaria Task Force, July 17-21, in Accra, Ghana. The event brought together more than 70 representatives from 15 African partner nations and focused on the emerging threat of the invasive malaria-causing species in Africa.

The 2023 Defense Health Information Technology Symposium Awards were awarded on August 8 at the annual symposium in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Naval Medical Center San Diego continues to lead in medical technology being the first Navy Medical Treatment Facility military hospital to conduct a total knee arthroplasty utilizing the Mako Robotics system. The Stryker Mako system is a state-of-the-art robotic arm that uses haptic technology, or commonly referred to as 3D touch, to achieve high ...