“As the Defense Health Agency continues to undergo organizational and technological changes, especially amid recent challenges around COVID-19, the agency is looking to further strengthen its resiliency to both gradual and sudden disruptions.”
“DHA Assistant Director for Management and Component Acquisition Executive Barclay Butler explained the varying degrees of disruption that the Military Health System constantly encounters, from adjusting to the deployment of a new electronic health record to rapidly responding to endemic public health emergencies like COVID-19. With MHS being both a military and health care organization, resiliency is dependent on training for sudden change and problem solving from the root of any given problem…”
“The adoption of treatment facilities is particularly challenging now because of COVID-19, Butler added. DHA has been taking the administrative reins on MTFs since October 2019 and determining which MTFs should be clinics or hospital and generally right-sizing them for effective purposes. But during the pandemic, MTFs had to selectively pause activities like elective surgeries and many non-emergency in-person visits, among others, making it difficult to continue the MTF transition.”
“Amid current and future changes and to increase resiliency, DHA needs more training in three areas — leaders, personnel and patients…” Read the full article here.
Source: DHA’s Organizational Resiliency Amid COVID-19 – By Melissa Harris, August 24, 2020. GovernmentCIO.
