“Defense Health Agency Director Lt. Gen. Ronald Place emphasized security and speed are core to creating effective technological solutions and systems, he said at the DHA Industry Day in San Antonio Thursday.”
“Place underscored four priorities within the agency and explained that each of those pillars can be leveraged with technological innovation. Those priorities, he said, are to:
- Ensure that the military’s forces are always medically ready;
- Form a ‘ready medical force’ that can be quickly deployed at military’s posts across the world to make units readily medically prepared;
- Ensure that patients are satisfied; and
- Maintain and support DHA staff so that they feel ‘fulfilled’ and experience ‘joy and purpose working in the MHS.’”
“Place stressed that it is difficult for DHA to deploy the medical devices, acquisition and financing systems, and other solutions normally on the health information technology market in the face of the Defense Department’s security requirements…”
“With cybersecurity and speed as the top two elements that Place wants to see in technology DHA deploys, Place spoke about how he wants to leverage those secure and fast technologies to address DHA’s four priorities…” Read the full article here.
Source: DHA Director Highlights Security, Speed in Agency Priorities – By Melissa Harris, November 21, 2019. GovernmentCIO.
