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Aug 23, 2017

Medical Logistics Services

Specialized logistics services required to support operation of an MTF. These include, but are not limited to, hospital housekeeping, linen and laundry, and the management and disposal of regulated medical waste.

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Aug 23, 2017

Timeliness

The ability to deliver effects when appropriate, at a desired time, or within a stated timeframe.

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Aug 23, 2017

Enterprise Master Data

The single source of basic business data used across all systems, applications, and processes across the DMLEnt and other authorized users within the DoD information environment. Includes data related to materiel, vendors, contract and price, and customers.

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Aug 23, 2017

Joint Readiness

The Combatant Commander’s ability to integrate, synchronize and sustain Ready Medical Forces and Medically Ready Forces to execute his or her assigned mission.

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Aug 23, 2017

Standardization

The process by which the Department of Defense achieves the closest practicable cooperation among the Services and Department of Defense agencies for the most efficient use of research, development, and production resources, and agrees to adopt on the broadest possible basis the use of: 

  • common or compatible operational, administr...

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Aug 23, 2017

Shared Service

Enterprise service activity consolidated under DHA management and provided to the Military Departments as a service in order to reduce unnecessary redundancies, improve performance, decrease costs, and enable the MHS to operate more efficiently as an integrated health system.

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Aug 23, 2017

eCommerce

The use of electronic data interchange standards to exchange transactions with commercial supplier networks. The DLA medical prime vendor program and the electronic catalog use eCommerce.

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Aug 23, 2017

Medical Countermeasures

Medical and select non-medical materiel, including personal protective equipment, required to protect or impair the effects of major population health threats such as pandemic disease and weapons of mass destruction.

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Aug 23, 2017

Adaptability

The ability to respond to changing conditions and environments by adjusting to apply appropriate mass and weight of effort.

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DML Programs

Formally organized procedures, processes, and responsibilities administered by the DHA in collaboration with the Military Departments that support the Services in execution of common functions and activities to improve DMLEnt performance and promote joint readiness.

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Aug 23, 2017

Precision

The ability to generate accurate, relevant and appropriate effects.

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Aug 23, 2017

Authoritative Data Source

A data source whose products have undergone producer data verification, validation and certification activities.

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Aug 23, 2017

Medical Logistics

A function of the MHS that provides the ability to organize and provide life-cycle management of specialized medical products and logistics services required to support health readiness requirements across the range of military operations. Medical logistics functions include management of medical materiel (supplies, gases, equipment, and assemblages), med...

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Aug 23, 2017

Authoritative Data

A data structure and value domain set that is readily available to provide common domains of data values to different databases.

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Aug 23, 2017

Efficiency

The ability to deliver required supplies/services to the customer at the lowest total delivered cost, or the ability to provide required support with the smallest logistics footprint.

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