“Facing a pandemic and an aging legacy medical record system with limited data storage capacity at an on-premise data center in Charleston, South Carolina, the Enterprise Intelligence & Data Solutions (EIDS) team, sprang into action to complete a game-changing cloud migration project. The effort, called the Accelerated Migration Project, or AMP, moved petabytes of secondary healthcare data and related applications to the cloud. The project digitally transforms access to U.S. Defense Department medical records and offers better data analytics and more reliable information discovery, driving improved outcomes in patient care and business operations, experts say.”
“The platform serves a variety of users, including clinicians, medical treatment facilities, civilian facilities, the Defense Department, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), data scientists and analysts. The health data delivery system provides those users a better understanding of the data and increases confidence in its validity, says Chris Nichols, program manager for EIDS, Program Executive Office, Defense Healthcare Management Systems (PEO DHMS).”
“’The week we commenced the project, we could already see the data’s significance for the Military Health System’s (MHS) COVID-19 response,’ Nichols states. ‘The data we needed to move was and is critical to our health care teams’ ability to track and support patients affected by the virus. Our ability to succeed—and to do so both quickly and without disruption to health care—was imperative to the MHS COVID-19 response.’”
“The PEO DHMS reports directly to the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment, and administratively, is attached to the Defense Health Agency (DHA). The project benefited from top leadership support with Lt. Gen. Ronald Place, USA, director, DHA, making it a focus for the young agency, which was stood up seven years ago as a joint, integrated combat support agency to manage all of the service’s garrison healthcare for MHS beneficiaries. Before then, each service managed its own electronic health care records.”
“Besides the enormous scope and scale of the project, another remarkable aspect of AMP was the team’s speed in completing it—93 days…” Read the full article here.
Source: Building a Federal Healthcare Data Hub – By Kimberly Underwood, October 1, 2020. SIGNAL Magazine.
