DHIMS | Defense Health Information Management System

Vision

The Premier Global Electronic Health Record

Military's EHR

9.7+ million beneficiaries with clinical data
77,000+ active users
140,000+ new encounters per day

Military Treatment Facilities

63+ hospitals
413+ medical clinics
375+ dental clinics

Theater Footprint

15 Theater hospitals
408 forward
resuscitative sites and first responder sites
65 U.S. Naval ships

Defense Medical Logistics Standard Support (DMLSS)

Defense Medical Logistics Standard Support (DMLSS) 3.1 is an Automated Information System (AIS) for Theater Level III hospitalization units, including Army Combat Support Hospitals, Air Force Expeditionary Medical Systems (EMEDS), Navy Hospital Ships and Navy Expeditionary Medical Force (EMF) Hospitals. It replaces the multitude of legacy service-specific logistics systems with one standard DoD medical logistics AIS.

Key Capabilities

Requisition management
Property accountability
Biomedical maintenance operations
Inventory management
Facility management operations of operational Level III hospitals

Key Benefits and Facts

Deployment of a single production baseline has been completed
Provides Theater hospitals with the same functionality as the Sustaining Base
Will meet DoD Information Assurance Certification and Accreditation Process, Joint Capabilities Integration and Development System and Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers requirements
Migration from the Theater version's aging Informix database to an Oracle database is planned for the 4th Quarter, FY 2008 delivery to the DHIMS Program Office; the upgraded version is designed to enable compatibility with the Theater Medical Information Program (TMIP) Framework, for communication in low/no communications environments

DHIMS: Defense Health Information Management System