The Defense Health Agency implemented the federal Oracle Cerner EHR system to 18 more military hospital and clinic commands on September 24 as part of the Federal EHR Modernization (FEHRM) project, according to reporting from Health.mil.
More than half of all Military Health System (MHS) providers are now using the EHR system, MHS GENESIS, which is the centerpiece of a larger transformation to standardize, integrate, and manage health data across the DoD and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).
“This is a significant milestone for the single, common, federal EHR, and I couldn’t be more excited on where the federal EHR will take us,” Bill Tinston, director of the Federal Electronic Health Record Modernization Office, told the news outlet… Read the full article here.
