Information determined by the MHS or an individual healthcare provider to deserve special precautions to prevent inadvertent disclosure by or to medical record system users.

Full-time duty in the active military service of the United States. This term includes full-time training duty, annual training duty, and attendance, while in the active military service, at a school designated as a service school by law or by the Secretary of the Military Department concerned. This term does not include full-time National Guard duty in a...

A beneficiary’s revocation of an opt out choice.

A set of programs that manages the electronic exchange of beneficiary health information among VA, DoD, other federal agencies, and non-federal partners.

The eHealth Exchange is a group of federal agencies and non-federal organizations that came together under a common mission and purpose to improve patient care, streamline disability benefit claims, and improve public health reporting through secure, trusted, and interoperable health information exchange. Participating organizations mutually agree to supp...

An MHS health beneficiary who is not active duty.

The choice by a non-active duty beneficiary to not permit sharing of his or her health data by MHS with non-MHS eHealth Exchange partners.

One of several commercially available neurocognitive tools consisting of a library of computer-based assessments of cognitive domains including attention, concentration, reaction time, memory, processing speed, and decision-making. It may be used serially to assess changes in cognitive status over time.

Consists of at least three phases with varying timeframes related to Service members’ movement from home station to a theater of operations and their return. The phases are described as pre-deployment, during deployment, and post-deployment.

A representative sample of Service members tested in the pre-deployment environment.

All troop movement of Active Component and Reserve Component personnel resulting from a Joint Chief of Staff or unified command deployment for more than 30 continuous days to a location outside the United States that does not have a permanent military treatment facility (funded by the Defense Health Program).  This includes naval personnel afloat wh...

A standardized cognitive and behavioral evaluation using validated and normed testing performed in a formal environment. Testing uses specifically designated tasks to measure cognitive function known to be linked to a particular brain structure or pathway. Aspects of cognitive functioning that are assessed typically include intellectual functioning, atten...

A traumatically induced structural injury or physiological disruption of brain function as a result of an external force that is indicated by new onset or worsening of at least one of these clinical signs immediately following the event: Any alteration in mental status (e.g., confusion, disorientation, slowed thinking). Any loss of memory for events immed...

The diagnosis of mild traumatic brain injury also known as concussion is made when two conditions are met.  In the absence of documentation, both conditions are based on self-report information.

1. An injury event must have occurred.
2. The individual must have experienced a normal structural neuroimaging by head computed tomography (CT) or conven...

The medical and dental programs provided to DOD beneficiaries as defined in Part 199 of Title 32, Code of Federal Regulations.