Military Health IT officials are working hard to lay the building blocks of future health care for veterans and service members. As a result, the Defense Health Agency (DHA) is focused on standardizing and improving processes across integrated health systems for optimal service member readiness. The agency advances high reliability practices across the Military Health System (MHS) to decrease complexity, modernize infrastructure, and become more flexible and adaptable. The goal is to provide combat support and peacetime services to millions of warfighters, veterans and their families. Health IT upgrades are transforming the MHS, from enhancing electronic health record systems to optimizing joint health information exchange, to aiding in the analysis of epidemiology data that improves the health and readiness of all service members and their beneficiaries.

Join this session to hear military health IT leaders talk about current and emerging DHA Health IT initiatives. Panelists will discuss the importance of maintaining premium care for patients at a time when information technology systems are changing rapidly across the MHS.

Potential topics include:

• What are future initiatives that will drive DHA J-6 (Joint Warfighter)? What is the future roadmap?
• How are agile transformative initiatives and transitioning systems improving the Defense Health Management System (DHMS)?
• An update on MHS GENESIS. When fully deployed, it will provide a single health record for service members, veterans, and their families.
• What role can Health IT play in emerging Bio surveillance initiatives?
• What are the health IT opportunities related to the Promise to Address Comprehensive Toxics (PACT) Act and potential for R&D funding?

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