DHIMS: Defense Health Information Management System

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Program History

The Defense Health Information Management System was created as a result of the merger between the Clinical Information Technology Program Office and the Theater Medical Information Medical Program - Joint. DHIMS manages the acquisition, development, implementation and sustainment of the systems that make up the military's worldwide electronic health record.

CITPO developed and deployed clinical applications such as AHLTA. TMIP-J developed and/or adapted solutions such as AHLTA-Theater to support the Theater medical business practice. Charles Campbell, then Chief Information Officer of the Military Health System announced the merger of CITPO and TMIP-J in June 2008.

The merger has helped:

• Develop solutions that are integrated and scalable across the Department of Defense enterprise.
• Align objectives and goals for a seamless EHR.
• Eliminate communication gaps from a functional, technical and operational perspective.
• Eliminate organizational redundancy and increase efficiency.

DHIMS IT solutions:

• Serve a transient population of patients, in both fixed (Garrison) and deployed (Theater) military treatment facilities.
• Are built upon the functional, technical and operational perspectives of Theater and clinical medical professionals.
• Support medical clinicians through direct patient-provider relationship, population health, medical surveillance, clinical decision support and force health protection for Service members.
• Provide an integrated suite of software known as TMIP, to support the military's deployed medical business practice. TMIP supports complete clinical care documentation, medical supply and equipment tracking, patient movement visibility and health surveillance in austere communications environments.
• Help the military's medical community manage more than 9.7 million MHS beneficiary records and provides valuable data to Combatant Commands.

DHIMS partners with leaders in the healthcare information management and information technology arenas to continue to improve the EHR system. The program's primary focus is enhancing the usability of the EHR by improving overall system performance, speed and reliability to meet the needs of the military's medical community.

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