Military Health System

This instruction provides guidance for balance between patient confidentiality rights and the commander’s right to know for operation and risk management decisions.

This document describes the line leader responsibilities for the Department of Defense mandated policy, DOD Instruction 6490.11, “DOD Policy Guidance for the Management of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury/Concussion in the Deployed Setting,” that applies to all service members involved in potentially concussive events in deployed settings.

This report provides an update through June 2022 of routine screening results for antibodies to the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) among members of the active and reserve components of the U.S. Armed Forces. During the full 5 and 1/2-year surveillance period, the HIV seropositivity rates for active component service members were 0.21 positives per ...

Establishes policies, procedures, and responsibilities requiring the implementation of a comprehensive neurocognitive assessment policy in the Military Services.

This instruction establishes policy, assigns responsibilities, and prescribes standard elements, pursuant to section 722 of Public Law 111-383, requiring the implementation of a comprehensive neurocognitive assessment policy in the military services.

This instruction establishes screening requirements for the presence of G6PD deficiency in all personnel entering the Military Services and those Service members on active duty who have not previously been tested.

This instruction establishes, implements adn updates domestic abuse policies, identifies and assigns responsibilities for preventing and responding to domestic abuse and replaces/cancels several related memorandums.

This directive implements DOD policy and assign responsibilities for the SAPR Program on prevention, response, and oversight to sexual assault.

In accordance with the authority in DOD Directive 5136.01 and the policy in DOD Instruction 6440.02, this manual implements policy, assigns responsibilities, and provides for standards and procedures for managing the CLIP. This manual states the minimal conditions that all laboratories must meet to be certified to perform testing on human specimens ...

This instruction establishes the Center for Clinical Laboratory Medicine (CCLM), formerly known as the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Program Office, under the Defense Health Agency (DHA). CCLM has the primary responsibility to develop Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) comparable regulations and administer the CLIP in accordance with ...

This directive designates the Secretary of the Army as the DOD Executive Agent for the Armed Services Blood Program Office (ASBPO) (Reference (h)), who exercises this authority through the Surgeon General of the Army, in accordance with DoDD 5101.1 (Reference (d)).

Establishes the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Branch (AFHSB) as the single source for DOD-level health surveillance information. Designates the Secretary of the Army as the DOD Executive Agent for the AFHSB. Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs shall establish the Force Health Protection Integration Council as the advisory Board of ...

This instruction establishes policy, assigns responsibilities, and prescribes procedures for attainment of inter-Service standards for developing, initiating, and maintaining adult behavioral health services in primary care.

Updates policy for the identification, surveillance, and management of military personnel infected with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus and for prevention activities to control transmission of HIV.

This instruction establishes policy, assigns responsibilities, and provides procedures on the management of mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI), also known as concussion, in the deployed setting.