“The Department of Defense continues to onboard more physicians and providers to its modernized electronic health record system, MHS GENESIS…”
“The latest wave of new users and centers with access to the technology brings the total to 20,000 users at 20 facilities across the Military Health Service (MHS) — a more than 30% increase.
The new EHR modernizes many of the interfaces for how medical workers interact with patient data and migrates the DOD’s health records to a Cerner Millennium cloud system. The program’s rollout saw some snags early in the pandemic but has since corrected course…”
“Wave deployments of MHS GENESIS are taking place in specific regions across the U.S. and often take several months for completion. Full deployment of the system is expected by the end of 2023, according to Leidos. This latest wave of deployments is centered in southern California, an area with a sizable military presence…” Read the full article here.
Source: DOD adds 6,000 new users to electronic health record system – By Jackson Barnett, March 3, 2021. FedScoop.
