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This HIPAA Information Paper describes the Protected Health Information Management Tool (updated November 2024).
This HIPAA Information Paper describes uses and disclosures of protected health information as it relates to family members and friends (updated November 2024).
This HIPAA Information Paper describes the Amendment of PHI (updated October 2024).
This HIPAA Information Paper describes the Minimum Necessary Rule (updated November 2024).
The DHMSM Program Management Office oversees deployment, operations, and sustainment of MHS GENESIS®. DHMSM manages the acquisition, testing, delivery, integration, and successful operation and sustainment of MHS GENESIS, a state-of-the-market electronic health record and health care system solution that transforms the way the Department of Defense ...
Blood PFAS testing is offered to current DOD firefighters during their annual occupational medicine examination, to newly hired DOD firefighters in order to establish a baseline blood PFAS level in firefighters, and to other DOD personnel who perform firefighting duties as part of their job assignment. Each firefighter may accept or decline the test ...
Blood PFAS testing is offered to current DOD firefighters during their annual occupational medicine examination, to newly hired DoD firefighters in order to establish a baseline blood PFAS level in firefighters, and to other DOD personnel who perform firefighting duties as part of their job assignment. Each firefighter may accept or decline the test ...
This information paper describes hepatitis B virus and the vaccines to prevent it.
Hearing protector fit testing is a procedure used to quantitively measure the amount of noise reduction a specific hearing protector is providing a user. Fit testing measures the personal attenuation rating (PAR) specific to each individual ear and hearing protector. The PAR is a real-world measurement of the overall attenuation the hearing protector ...
Speech Intelligibility graphic of low to high intelligibility at 86dBA
Some of the Deepest Wounds are Invisible. Arm your ears. Guard against permanent disability and safeguard sounds you cherish. Wear hearing protection.
Don’t be the weak link. Failure to wear hearing protection puts you, your unit, and your mission in danger.
This information paper describes meningococcal disease and the vaccines to prevent it.
MHS GENESIS is the Department of Defense's new electronic health record. When fully deployed, MHS GENESIS will provide the DOD's 9.5 million beneficiaries and 205,000 medical providers with a single, integrated health record across the continuum of care – deployed and at home and eventually, through the transition to the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Description of mpox disease and the new mpox vaccine, JYNNEOS.
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