Military Health System (MHS)
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How the DOD's choice of EHR will impact providers
As the Department of Defense prepares to select a new electronic health record system, some are advocating that it go with an open-source solution—not just to benefit of the DOD but to use the $11-billion program to benefit the healthcare industry at large.
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IBM and Epic Form Advisory Group as Part of Department of Defense Healthcare Management Systems Modernization Bid
IBM today announced that its bid for the Department of Defense Healthcare Management Systems Modernization (DHMSM) contract includes the formation of a Military Health System (MHS) Advisory Group made up of industry experts, including veterans, with firsthand experience in some of the biggest and most successful Electronic Health Record (EHR) implementations.
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IBM Expands U.S. Federal Healthcare Practice
IBM announced it will be using its big data and Watson cognitive computing technology in its federal health care practice.
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IBM Partners With Epic In Battle For Pentagon's Multibillion-Dollar EHR Deal
IBM has teamed with electronic health records provider Epic to compete for the Defense Department’s Healthcare Management Systems Modernization contract expected to be bid out this summer, with an expected value of approximately $11 billion...
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In Military Care, a Pattern of Errors but Not Scrutiny
Since 2001, the Defense Department has required military hospitals to conduct safety investigations when patients unexpectedly die or suffer severe injury. The object is to expose and fix systemic errors, often in the most routine procedures, that can have disastrous consequences for the quality of care. Yet there is no evidence of such an inquiry into Mrs. Zeppa’s death.
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Intermountain Healthcare Partners With Cerner To Provide Clinical Governance For Leidos Partnership For Defense Health
Cerner today announced a strategic agreement with Intermountain Healthcare to provide clinical governance of solutions and workflow to be proposed for the Department of Defense's Healthcare Management System Modernization (DHMSM) initiative. Cerner is a member of the Leidos Partnership for Defense Health, an alliance that includes Leidos, the domain experts in Military Health, and Accenture, a global IT and management consulting company and one of the largest EHR systems integrators in the world...
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Intermountain, Cerner Collaborate On Defense Health IT Bid
Cerner Corp., one of several major electronic health-record system vendors competing for a multibillion-dollar contract to replace the Military Health System's EHR, has entered what it terms a “strategic agreement” on its bid with Intermountain Healthcare...
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IOM Report Defense/VA Have No Clue if $9.3 Billion Worth Of PTSD Treatment Works
The Defense and Veterans Affairs departments spent $9.3 billion to treat post-traumatic stress disorder from 2010 through 2012, but neither knows whether this staggering sum resulted in effective or adequate care, the Institute of Medicine reported today....
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Joe Conn-DoD Should Make Right Decision and Adopt VistA
I think what's needed now remains as obvious as it has for decades, which means Shinseki and Panetta got it only half right, because they were half wrong. There should be one EHR for the military and the VA, but it shouldn't be the just dispatched Frankenstein's EHR that was to be built out of custom-made and off-the-shelf parts. It should be VistA. The VA has a demonstrably superior EHR system, so the Defense Department brass should swallow their bureaucratic pride and adopt it. Read More »
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Joint EHR Costs Skyrocketed To $28 Billion, DoD Says
Physicians spending a paltry twenty or thirty thousand dollars on their EHR implementations can take comfort in the fact that they don’t have to foot the bill for the recently abandoned joint VA-DoD EHR system, which would have cost the taxpayers $28 billion, according to Frank Kendall, undersecretary of Defense for acquisitions. Read More »
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Joint iEHR Spending Was Focused On Service Contracts
The bulk of spending on the joint EHR proposed by the departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs went to support service contracts in 2012, according to a new report from the Interagency Program Office (IPO), the agency in charge of modernizing the Military Health System's EHR software. Read More »
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Leidos Team Touts Interoperability In Military EHR Bid
Time is running out for vendors to submit bids on the planned $11 billion, 10-year contract to deliver an electronic health records system to the Defense Department. The DOD Healthcare Management System Modernization (DHMSM -- pronounced "dim sum") is an ambitious plan to transform the delivery of care to the 9.6 million active-duty service members, their dependents, retirees and others...
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Major Players Bid For Slice Of Federal Health Records Pie
Four teams of contractors so far have indicated they want in on the DoD's massive electronic health records program. While each of the teams presents formidable resources in healthcare IT, to some degree no group has a complete, ready-to-go, solution, said IDC's Scott Lundstrom...
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ManTech Awarded $20.5 Million To Support AHLTA For The DoD
The TriCare Management Activity (TMA) Contract Operations Division (COD) has awarded Evolvent Technologies...a contract to provide new development and sustainment support for the AHLTA-Theater application to include code optimization, database conversion, capability and new feature additions, mobile computing enhancements, and code upgrades. Read More »
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MHS Gives Glimpse of Future HIT
In a session so crowded that conference officials closed the doors and effectively locked attendees out, Military Health System acting CIO Karen Guice, MD, offered a glimpse of the future of MHS health IT.
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