“It has been a little over one year since MHS GENESIS, the U.S. Department of Defense’s new electronic health record, went live at Fairchild Air Force Base. That was followed by the remaining sites in the Initial Operability Capability (IOC) region, which also includes Naval Hospital Oak Harbor, Naval Hospital Bremerton and Madigan Army Medical Center. The Leidos Partnership for Defense Health is proud of the progress made to date, and we continue to learn and grow while transforming military health care.”
“Health care delivery is complex, and change at this level of scale is never easy. To help mitigate this, the DoD has adopted commercial practices for deployment: incremental phasing, focusing on a smaller set of facilities first to work through issues and make adjustments to make the larger outcome better. The Partnership has worked closely with DoD leadership, local staff and military health system providers to identify workflows, provide the right training to the right people and get end users accustomed to the new system and the new processes that inherently follow.”
“As can be expected with any large-scale change, there have been challenges…” Read the full blog here.
Source: Creating a Better Experience for the Entire Military Health System – By Travis Dalton, February 28, 2018. Cerner.
