Skip main navigation

Military Health System

Hurricane Milton & Hurricane Helene

Emergency procedures are in place in multiple states due to Hurricane Milton & Hurricane Helene. >>Learn More

2023 Banner Year for MHS GENESIS

Image of 2023 Banner Year for MHS GENESIS. MHS GENESIS, the Department of Defense’s new, common electronic health record for the Military Health System replacing the TRICARE Online Patient Portal, is now operational worldwide. In 2023 it met major milestones—completed stateside deployment by June, and in September went live at overseas hospitals and clinics. Four facilities remain and by March 2024, DOD’s incremental deployment plan, that started in September 2019, will be complete. (Photo By Janice Erdlitz, Lyster Army Health Clinic, Fort Novosel, Alabama)

MHS GENESIS, the Department of Defense’s new electronic health record, started 2023 by fully deploying across the continental U.S. and ended with successful transitions at nearly every overseas military hospital and clinic in Europe and the Indo-Pacific regions.

By March 2024, MHS GENESIS will be completely deployed at more than 700 sites worldwide.

MHS GENESIS provides a single health record for service members, veterans, and their families. MHS GENESIS was developed to replace a patchwork of legacy systems, enhance patient safety, standardize clinical practices, and give patients more digital access to their provider teams. It also replaces the TRICARE Online Patient Portal.

According to a recent Leapfrog evaluation, MHS GENESIS is outperforming the legacy systems when it comes to patient safety and safe medication ordering.

Limited fielding for the initial operational capability of MHS GENESIS began in February 2017 at four sites in the Pacific Northwest. Since initial deployment, MHS GENESIS has undergone multiple upgrades, stabilization and adoption changes, and thousands of configuration changes. In September 2019, incremental deployment began and continued through the COVID-19 pandemic.

This year started off with MHS GENESIS reaching 75% of the continental U.S. deployment with its launch of Wave DRUM and Wave PORTSMOUTH, spanning New England to the Tidewater region in Virginia.

This was followed by the National Capital Region at the end of March. And on June 3, 2023, the MHS GENESIS roll-out finished stateside deployment at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.

With this milestone completed, the next chapter was deployment overseas in the fall of 2023.

Sept. 23, 2023, brought the first international deployment of MHS GENESIS, at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, Germany, and other hospitals and clinics in Germany, England, Spain, Belgium, Greece, Italy, and Turkey following months of preparation and anticipation.

With the end of the MHS GENESIS global deployment nearing, leaders at hospitals and clinics found a much more important need for patient portal champions to improve the patient experience at each facility. They serve command and leadership teams at their respective military hospitals and clinics and are liaisons between their site and the patient portal leads at Defense Health Agency.

Wrapping up the year were the successful deployments in Europe and Indo-Pacific regions.

While the new EHR deployed across most of the Pacific Rim, two of the last sites to switch over, Naval Hospital Guam and the Air Force clinic at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, are scheduled for mid-January 2024. They were delayed from the severe impacts of Super Typhoon Mawar at the end of May.

The last medical facility to bring MHS GENESIS online is the James A. Lovell Federal Health Center just north of Chicago, Illinois, in March 2024. Lovell FHCC represents a first-of-its-kind hospital partnership between the VA and DOD, integrating all medical care into a single federal health care facility.

For the DOD, this will then conclude the operational deployment at more than 700 U.S. military hospitals and clinics worldwide in just over seven years. It also provides DOD's 9.5 million beneficiaries and 205,000 providers with a single, integrated health record across the continuum of care.

MHS GENESIS Coverage

A sampling of DHA MHS GENESIS coverage efforts in 2023 include:

You also may be interested in...

Article
Mar 23, 2024

Military Health System Leader Shares His Vision for Collaboration Between the Military Health System and Department of Veterans Affairs

Military Health System Leader Shares His Vision for Collaboration Between MHS and Department of Veterans Affairs

Dr. Paul Cordts, deputy assistant director of medical affairs for the Defense Health Agency, addressed the ongoing collaboration of the Military Health System and the Department of Veterans Affairs in a presentation at the annual meeting of AMSUS, the Society of Federal Health Professionals.

Article
Mar 21, 2024

The HIPAA Privacy Rule and Military Health Care: What Parents of Minors Need To Know

The HIPAA Privacy Rule and Military Health Care: What Parents of Minors Need To Know

Are you the parent or legal sponsor of a minor child? If so, there are things you should know about what access you have to your child’s health care records and choices. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act Privacy Final Rule protects minors’ privacy concerning their health care choices and treatment.

Article Around MHS
Feb 29, 2024

Madigan Army Medical Soldier Wins U.S. Army Medical Command Career Counselor of the Year—Two Years in a Row

U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Angie Carper, Madigan Army Medical Center, representing Medical Readiness Command, Pacific, won the 2024 Medical Command Career Counselor of the Year.  (Photo: Joseph Kumzak/U.S. Army)

U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Angie Carper, Madigan Army Medical Center, representing Medical Readiness Command, Pacific, won the 2024 Medical Command Career Counselor of the Year. The award was announced in a ceremony Feb. 15, 2024, at MEDCOM headquarters on Fort Sam Houston. This is the second time Carper has received this award.

Article Around MHS
Jan 23, 2024

MHS GENESIS Deploying in Guam

U.S. Air Force personnel assigned to the 36th Medical Group learn to use the Military Health System Genesis program at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, Jan. 12, 2024. MHS Genesis is an advanced electronic health record, that has replaced several legacy systems. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Allon Lapaix)

With Andersen Air Force Base, Guam being a part of the last wave to have the MHS GENESIS go online, members at Andersen now have access to the same information and systems that are being utilized by other bases around the world.

Article
Jan 5, 2024

Ask the Doc: How Does MHS GENESIS Improve Patient Safety?

MHS GENESIS, the advanced electronic health record, has features that help improve safety and quality care for patients. (Photo: Robyn Mincher)

The Armed Forces Health Longitudinal Technology Application worked for what we needed back in 2002. Since then, technology and requirements have changed significantly—and the platform could not keep up. When the Department of Defense set out to replace AHLTA and the other legacy EHR systems, the primary requirement was two-fold: first, patient safety ...

Report
Jan 4, 2024

DHMS FY2023 Year in Review

.PDF | 5.07 MB

The Program Executive Office, Defense Healthcare Management Systems was chartered to transform the delivery of healthcare and advance data sharing through a modernized electronic health record for service members, Veterans, and their families. This Year in Review, “The End of the Beginning,” highlights our many FY2023 accomplishments and milestones.

Article Around MHS
Dec 18, 2023

Meet Tripler's Intervention Prevention and Control Team

TAMC’s IPaC team currently consists of four members: Emily E. Heenan, chief of Infection Prevention and Control; Michael J. Schweikert II, hospital epidemiologist; Han Ha Youn, Infection and control specialist; and Andrew “Drew” Tang, infection control specialist. Each team member is relatively new, joining the hospital staff within the last year.

The IPaC team at Tripler Army Medical Center monitors military health system data for infectious diseases affecting Oahu’s military population, potentially detracting from force readiness. The team focuses on identifying potential clusters of infection outbreaks.

Skip subpage navigation
Refine your search
Last Updated: September 23, 2024
Follow us on Instagram Follow us on LinkedIn Follow us on Facebook Follow us on X Follow us on YouTube Sign up on GovDelivery