“… to meet the change management needs for this critical effort, the Defense Health Agency has established the Office of the Chief Health Informatics Officer. OCHIO will collaborate with a community of health care clinicians, health information technology experts, and testers to help users of this health information management system seamlessly transition to new technologies and processes.
MHS GENESIS is the single, integrated medical and dental EHR. Scheduled to be systematically fielded at all military hospitals and clinics by 2024, initial testing phases of MHS GENESIS are now complete. The Military Health System is addressing challenges and issues as it prepares for the first wave of deployment next fall, said Air Force Maj. Gen. Lee E. Payne, who is dual-hatted as the Defense Health Agency Assistant Director for Combat Support and MHS EHR Functional Champion.
“I have to set the stage for the frontline users about what they can expect and that’s part of my responsibility,” said Payne. “We’ve been building the capability of the Office of Chief Health Informatics Officer to help us manage the record more in real time and deal with these problems, [and] help build the content configuration necessary to improve the record…” Read More Here.
Source: ‘Good things are happening’ as DoD continues to roll out MHS GENESIS – 1/8/2019, Health.mil.
