“WHAT EXACTLY ARE THE ‘LESSONS LEARNED?’: Every time we talk to the team implementing MHS Genesis, they tell us everything is fine; there have been glitches, to be sure, and the glitches lead to “lessons learned.” Well, we finally got a few specifics. It turns out that the MHS Genesis implementation is somewhat complicated by two other big IT projects that the Defense Health Agency is running simultaneously.
… Before MHS Genesis was a twinkle in the Pentagon acquisition office’s eye, DoD decided to upgrade IT infrastructure at its medical facilities. The upgrade, called Medical Community of Interest, or Med-COI, arose out of the DoD-VA effort to create an integrated EHR nearly a decade ago. “There was a realization that the infrastructure of DoD medical facilities was inconsistent to run an enterprise-level program,” Genesis spokesman David Norley says. Medical facilities at most bases are getting their own network, upgrades that should assure speedy access to data as the Cerner EHR deploys. But Med-COI is often only a step ahead of Genesis, and glitches have caused slowdowns at some of the four initial Cerner-ized bases in the Pacific Northwest, Norley says.
… The third big project is a new…” Read the rest here
