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The Pentagon expects to move ahead with its plan to downsize or close dozens of medical facilities by the end of 2020.
If spending priorities tell what's important to an organization, then the Military Health System ranks pretty low.
Officials said Friday that DoD’s newest combatant command will stay at its temporary home in Colorado Springs for the next six years; it’s expected to take about that long for a new basing decision to be made and new facilities to be built.
DoD's plan to restructure military treatment facilities would affect 50 hospitals and clinics, primarily by restricting their services to active duty service members only.
The 2020 NDAA bars DoD from converting military medical billets to civilian ones until more analysis is done.
Incomplete, inaccurate provider database remains a major problem, 11 months after new vendors took over TRICARE management.
Navy Commander Shawn Clausen is acting chief of epidemiology and analysis at the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Branch of the Military Health System described what the military plans to do about it.
2019 Defense bill strengthens role of Defense Health Agency, but omits Senate language that would have completely eliminated the military services' own medical commands.
Senate's NDAA says DoD has failed to deliver on a military health reorganization Congress ordered two years ago, and mandates more specific reforms.
The Coast Guard joins VA in agreeing to adopt the commercial EHR DoD has already selected, but implementation details remain unclear.
In today's Federal Newscast, despite facing recent scrutiny, some veterans organizations still feel Dr. David Shulkin is the best person to run the Veterans Affairs Department.
IG review finds DoD has closed previously-identified gaps in quality of medical care.
Mario Hyland from AEGIS.net will talk about exchanging information between medical systems. July 31, 2012(Encore presentation August 28, 2012)
Karen Guice, the acting CIO for the Military Health System, said her office is working the Veterans Affairs Department to ensure the transition to the new electronic health record from legacy systems is as seamless as possible. She said DoD and VA are working on a data taxonomy. April 5, 2012(Encore presentation June 14, 2012)