Defense Health Information Management System

Army Col. Aaron Silver briefed attendees at the Tri-Service Medical Information Management Symposium on current electronic health record activities. His briefing focused on sustainment, virtualization and consolidation efforts within the central data repository, as well as awareness and training activities. He concluded his briefing by discussing DHIMS' current transition plans for the integrated EHR.

Army Col. DaCosta Barrow briefed Baptist Memorial Health Care on lessons learned from implementing the military's electronic health record. His briefing focused on the current state of the EHR, the future vision of the DOD EHR and change management. He concluded his briefing by discussing lessons learned and ways to improve the next generation EHR.

Ms. Brenda Stevens briefed attendees at the 2011 American Telemedicine Association 16th Annual International Meeting and Exposition. Her presentation focused on the purpose of HAIMS and an overview of its capabilities. She also addressed the estimated timeline and functionality of HAIMS Releases I and II.

Army Col. DaCosta Barrow briefed attendees at the 2011 Annual Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society Conference and Exhibition. His presentation focused on understanding the applications and products that comprise the military's EHR, as well as identifying development, deployment and maintenance challenges. In his brief, Barrow addresses the processes required to ensure best practices and stakeholder support.

Air Force Col. Page W. McNall briefed attendees at the 2011 Annual Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society Conference and Exhibition. Her presentation focused on analyzing the existing EHR training methodologies and understanding the importance of training throughout the lifecycle of a project. In her presentation, McNall identified modern training methods and discussed techniques to incorporate these methods to ensure user acceptance.

Army Col. DaCosta Barrow briefed showcase attendees at the first and second EHR Showcase. His presentation focused on the objectives of the EHR Showcase and provided an overview of the military's EHR and the continuum of care from the point of injury on the battlefield to hospital care on the home front and on to the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Army Col. DaCosta Barrow briefed the command at Malcolm Grow Medical Center at the second EHR Showcase in National Harbor, Md. His presentation focused on the objectives of the EHR Showcase and the DOD's health care information support for the warfighter mission. Barrow also provided the results from an EHR user satisfaction survey.

Army Maj. Frank Tucker participated in the inaugural EHR Today Open House at the DHIMS headquarters in Falls Church, Va. His presentation covered the movement of information from the battlefield, to fixed Military Treatment Facilities, to the Department of Veterans Affairs medical facilities. Tucker discussed the benefits of EHRs, drawing a comparison between EHR use in the military and the private sector. He also addressed the unique characteristics of the Department of Defense's EHR in support of the military's medical mission.

Army Col. DaCosta Barrow participated in the IDGA EHR Summit in Vienna, Va. His presentation focused on the evolution of the military's EHR and the continuum of care from the point of injury on the battlefield to hospital care on the home front and on to the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Air Force Col. Page McNall participated in the IDGA EHR Summit in Vienna, Va. Her presentation focused on the military's clinical products and training initiatives.

Army Col. Claude Hines and Army Col. DaCosta Barrow participated in an electronic health record panel discussion at the Association of the United States Army Medical Symposium and Exhibition in San Antonio. Their discussion described the current status of the military's EHR; discussed the value of the EHR from the battlefield to the home front; and closed with the Department of Defense's EHR Way Ahead.

Army Col. Claude Hines presented a briefing titled "The Way forward for the Military's Electronic Health Record (EHR)" at the HIMSS 2010 Conference in Atlanta on March 2. His presentation focused on the accomplishments of the Defense Health Information Management System (DHIMS) program office since last year's HIMSS Conference as well as an update on the Military Health System's (MHS) EHR Way Ahead.

Army Maj. Frank Tucker presented a briefing titled "Protecting Our Service Members as They Protect Us" at the HIMSS 2010 Conference in Atlanta on March 4. His presentation provided an overview of the Defense Health Information Management System (DHIMS) program office; described the current status of the DOD's electronic health record (EHR); discussed the value of the EHR from the battlefield to the homefront; explained the upgrades scheduled for delivery to users in 2010; and closed the briefing with the DOD's EHR Way Ahead.

Capt. Michael Weiner presented a brief, entitled "Supporting Force Health Protection and Surveillance in a Modern Military," at the 2009 Force Health Protection Conference held in Albuquerque, August 18-19, 2009. His brief described the current approach to Theater medical surveillance and command and control force health protection utilizing the Joint Medical Workstation (JMeWS) and Medical Situational Awareness in the Theater (MSAT) Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration (MSAT) applications. The annual conference targets Military, Veterans Affairs, DOD civilian, security professionals and educators working in the areas of environmental health, occupational and preventive medicine, health promotion and wellness, population health and behavioral health.

Maj. Adam Peters participated in the "Healthcare Information Technology in the Theater" panel at the 2009 Association of the United States Army (AUSA) Institute of Land Warfare (ILW) Army Medical Symposium and Exposition held in San Antonio, July 21-24, 2009. The panel focuses on the interdependencies between DHIMS, the Army's infrastructure program office, Iraq and Afghanistan—illustrating how the software flows from the development to fielding. The purpose of this year's symposium was to stimulate dialogue among senior government officials, military leaders and industry leaders concerning the role of the Army Medical Department during a time of war and period of transformation.

DHIMS Chief Medical Officer, Capt. Michael Weiner, provided a DHIMS update to the Commanding Officer for Navy Medicine Information Systems Support Activity (NAVMISSA), Capt. Tina Ortiz. NAVMISSA helps Navy Medicine by providing Information Management and Information Technology (IM/IT) programs and services across the Navy Medicine enterprise with its medical and dental facilities, its research and specialty Commands and its support for afloat or field operations for the Navy and Marine Corps worldwide.

DHIMS Chief Medical Officer, Capt. Michael Weiner, spoke at the 2009 Armed Forces Operational Medicine Symposium (AFOMS) in New Orleans, La., on June 18, 2009. The Symposium ran from June 14-19 and was held in conjunction with the Independent Duty Corpsman (IDC) Conference. AFOMS is the premier military operational medicine event that brings together officers, enlisted and civilian healthcare professionals from various services and communities to exchange continuing medical education and experiences. Capt. Weiner's briefing, entitled "Using and Sharing the U.S. Military's Worldwide Electronic Health Record," provided an overview of activities within the DHIMS program office, including recent accomplishments and project initiatives. DHIMS also exhibited products at the conference, including AHLTA-Mobile, AHLTA-Theater, the Theater Medical Data Store (TMDS) and the Joint Medical Workstation (JMeWS).

DHIMS Chief Medical Officer, Capt. Michael Weiner presented at the 2009 FOSE Conference in Washington DC on March 11, 2009. He presented a briefing, entitled "Using and Sharing the U.S. Military's Worldwide Electronic Health Record," which highlighted: a plan of action for improving the usability of the AHLTA application and the effectiveness of the infrastructure supporting the application; the technologies implemented during the clinical reporting project; and how to leverage business intelligence to better manage and utilize the available data in one of the largest electronic health record systems.

DHIMS Chief Medical Officer, Capt. Michael Weiner, spoke at Hewlett-Packard's (HP) Health and Life Science HLS Symposium March 4, 2009, in Litchfield Park, Ariz. Weiner's briefing focused on thriving inside the information explosion. This presentation highlighted the numerous product lines that comprise the military's electronic health record to include AHLTA; to explain how these varied products are employed in a broad range of healthcare delivery settings to include the battlefield; and discuss how the Department of Defense (DOD) leverages business intelligence to enhance our EHR, thereby improving the management and sharing of patient data worldwide.

Former DHIMS Deputy Program Manager, Col. Bruce Brehm, spoke at the 2008 American Academy of Medical Administrators (AAMA) Conference in San Antonio, Texas, on November 20, 2008. His briefing covered the benefits of mobile electronic medical records and how a hospital can deploy its healthcare data applications to function in diverse operations environments.

DHIMS Chief Medical Officer, Capt. Michael Weiner, spoke earlier this week at the 2008 Healthcare Mobile Technology Symposium in San Diego on September 15, 2008. Weiner's briefing focused on DHIMS experience with healthcare mobility and highlighted DHIMS' AHLTA-Mobile application.

Former DHIMS Deputy Program Manager, Col. Bruce Brehm, spoke on behalf of DHIMS at the Healthcare Management Seminar in San Antonio on September 11, 2008. The seminar, which was hosted by the Joint Medical Executive Skills Institute (JMESI), was designed for clinical providers moving into their first administrative medicine position. Brehm's briefing focused on AHLTA today and what the future may hold.

Col. Holmes and the DHIMS staff briefed at the 2008 Force Health Protection Conference in Albuquerque, N.M., from August 12-14, 2008. The briefing focused on the management of medical information.

In partnership with DHIMS and Government Health IT, Col. Hines hosted a live e-Seminar Wednesday, June 25, 2008, from 11:00 to 12:00 EST. The eSeminar provided an overview of the newly formed DHIMS organization and discussed DHIMS' approach to tackling health information technology challenges faced by the military medical community in Theater.

On June 12, 2008, Program Manager Col. Claude Hines, Jr., joined Central Command CIO Maj. Alfred Hamilton for a briefing to attendees of the 2008 Government Health IT Conference, 1100, Ronald Reagan Trade Center, Washington DC.