In July 2012, the President released the National Strategy for Biosurveillance (Strategy), directing Federal departments and agencies to improve national biosurveillance capability within existing resources. This interim guidance directs actions within existing Department resources to improve the integration, synchronization, and coordination of ...

This memorandum establishes medical billing rates for contractors deploying with the U.S. Armed Forces, Department of Defense civilians (both U.S. citizens and non-U.S. citizens, both essential and nonessential, both paid by appropriated funds and non-appropriated funds), media embedded in U.S. Armed Forces' units, insurers of Military Health System ...

Title 10, United States Code, Section 2121, paragraph (d), directs the Secretary of Defense to annually adjust the amount of the Armed Forces Health Professions Scholarship Program and Financial Assistance Program (AFHPSP/FAP) stipend. Effective July 1, 2013, the monthly stipend for the F. Edward Hebert AFHPSP/FAP participants for the Fiscal Year 2013 ...

This memorandum describes the subject of how interoperability between Department of Defense and Department of Veterans Affairs electronic health records is essential to enabling this continuity. DOD is committed to the seamless transfer of electronic health records between DOD and VA.

This memorandum updates reimbursement rates for medical services funded by the Military Departments provided at Department of Defense deployed/non-fixed medical facilities for foreign nationals covered under Acquisition and Cross-Servicing Agreements.

Japanese Encephalitis (JE) virus is a mosquito-borne flavivirus and the most common vaccine-preventable cause of encephalitis in Asia. JE occurs throughout most of Asia and parts of the western Pacific. More than 99 percent of all JE infections are subclinical. Those with clinically evident disease have a 20 percent to 30 percent fatality rate, and ...

This document provides guidance and best practices for the chemoprophylaxis (use of medication to prevent malaria) of Service members serving in malaria endemic regions.

Establishes policy, assigns responsibilities, and prescribes uniform guidelines, procedures, and standards for the implementation of clinical case management (CM) in the Military Health System (MHS), for TRICARE beneficiaries including care of the wounded, ill, and injured (WII). Defines terms for MM, implements polices, assigns responsibilities, and ...

Department of Defense laboratories participating in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-sponsored Laboratory Response Network (LRN) do so with the approval and support of their respective Military Department Surgeons General.

Chiropractic services may now be added at military treatment facilities that do not offer the service, subject to Military Department approval procedures and available funding. This change recognizes several requests from MTFs to add chiropractic services and the incorporation of chiropractic care in various pain management programs. Each Military ...

This memorandum directs implementation of the Military Health System (MHS) governance reform outlined in my memorandum of March 2, 2012, "Planning for Reform of the Governance of the Military Health System," and affirmed by section 731 ofthe National Defense Authorization Act for FY 2013.