Col. (Dr.) Thomas J. Cantilina currently serves as the Military
Health System’s (MHS) Chief Health Informatics Officer (CHIO)
and the Deputy MHS EHR Functional Champion at the Defense
Health Agency (DHA). In these roles, he works to integrate the
needs of clinicians, healthcare operators, and technologists to
increase digital health solution adoption, create a data driven
enterprise, and transform care across the MHS, beginning with
the implementation of MHS GENESIS.
Previously, Col. Cantilina was the Special Assistant to the AF
Surgeon General for Defense Health Management Systems. In
this position his duties encompassed a broad set of activities
around the implementation of MHS GENESIS to include
consultation on system design & configuration, training, data
integration, change management and anything else that is
needed to help successfully deploy the new system. His
expertise in medical informatics is also frequently utilized such as
representing the AF Surgeon General at the National Library of
Medicine Board of Regents.