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EHR Today Open House
Thank you to all those who attended the Military Health System Office of the Chief Information Officer's inaugural EHR Today Open House held on Friday, June 11, 2010. Your participation contributed to the success of this event!
Due to the overwhelmingly positive response from attendees, the MHS will host its EHR Today Open House annually. Don't forget to check here for information about next year's open house. We'll post the details as they become available.
Brochure
Through product demonstrations and presentations featuring the military's electronic health record, the inaugural EHR Today Open House provided the system's users, beneficiaries, military leaders, health care providers, veterans, members of the media and other stakeholders with a better understanding of how the Military Health System's key capabilities, latest initiatives and successes benefit our service members and their dependents.
Download the 2010 EHR Today Open House brochure. PDF, 3 MB
Supporting the Service Member from the Battlefield to the Home Front
The story of the DOD's EHR continuum of care is one of hope and success. The military's EHR has evolved from a simple order entry application developed more than three decades ago, to a robust, clinical information management system that supports health care documentation on the battlefield, at Military Treatment Facilities worldwide, onboard Navy ships and with the Department of Veterans Affairs for follow-on care.
In the Theater of Operations, health care documentation begins at the point of injury when first responders use AHLTA-Mobile, the DOD's handheld device. After the AHLTA-Mobile encounter is signed, that data transfers to AHLTA-Theater for clinical decision making at the next level of care.
As the service member travels through the echelons of care, health data captured using AHLTA-Theater forwards to the official database for all Theater encounters, the Theater Medical Data Store. TMDS data is aggregated to feed multiple DOD systems such as the Joint Medical Workstation giving Combatant Commanders a medical operations picture of their troops. Using this information also expedites benefit assessments with the Defense Finance and Accounting Service and Veterans Tracking within the VA.
Most importantly, the service member's Theater medical encounter is accessible to health care providers at any stateside Military Treatment Facility as TMDS updates the DOD's Clinical Data Repository, which houses all service members' EHRs. The CDR and TMDS share relevant clinical information within AHLTA and the Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture through the Bidirectional Health Information Exchange.
Together with the VA, the DOD is among the world leaders in exchanging non-billable health care information.
Today, our nation's military beneficiaries witness groundbreaking events as we build the systems that tell their story.
Download a patient scenario highlighting a service member's chief medical complaint. Attendees at the EHR Today Open House had the opportunity to follow the patient's health care documentation beginning with point-of-injury through the entire continuum of care.
PDF, 1.3 MB
Press Releases
- Military Health System Office of the Chief Information Officer Showcases Electronic Capabilities, 18 June 2010
Open House News
The media published several interviews and informative articles covering the inaugural EHR Today Open House. To read the articles in their entirety, please click the links below.
- Military, Veterans Communities on Right Path with Paperless Medical Records, Executive Gov, 15 June 2010
- Departments Cooperate on Electronic Health Records, American Forces Press Service, 14 June 2010
- DOD Shows Off Health IT Progress, Federal News Radio, 14 June 2010
- DOD: Improvements Coming Soon for E-Health Records, Federal News Radio, 11 June 2010
Comments
We welcome feedback from those who attended the EHR Today Open House. E-mail us at EHROpenHouse@tma.osd.mil.
Presentations
U.S. Army Maj. Frank Tucker, Chief Systems Architect, Joint Medical Information Systems
"Sharing Data from the Battlefield to the VA"
U.S. Army Col. John S. Scott, MD, Chief, Clinical Informatics Department, Walter Reed Medical Center
"The Military's Deployed EHR"
Robert Walker, MD, Chief Medical Informatics Officer, European Regional Medical Command
"Usability Tools on the Home Front"
Presentation is not available for download at this time.
U.S. Navy Capt. Frank Chapman, Force Surgeon, Commander Naval Air Force, Pacific
"Implementing TMIP-Maritime"