“One of the Defense Health Agency’s central missions is to integrate all of the military’s disparate medical facilities and patient care efforts into a unified infrastructure, especially when it comes to technology. As that work continues, DHA headquarters is looking for some IT support at home.”
“The agency released a request for information Monday seeking feedback on vendors able to provide IT support for the entire DHA enterprise. ”
“Per Congressional mandates, all military treatment facilities are in the process of transferring operational authority to DHA, including ‘all IT service and support capability as well as transition to DHA of any existing and proposed operations support staff currently delivering those IT service and support capabilities,’ the RFI states.”
“Those IT services will also have to support DHA’s biggest effort: the transition to a single electronic health records platform dubbed MHS GENESIS. That system is being developed by the Leidos Partnership for Defense Health, which includes a commercial off-the-shelf records management platform from Cerner, a dental software solution from Henry Schein One and cybersecurity support from Leidos, along with some 30 other supporting vendors…” Read the full article here.
Source: Defense Health Agency Needs Help Consolidating Military’s Health IT Systems – By Aaron Boyd, September 24, 2019. Nextgov.
