“The Military Health System is one of America’s largest and most complex health-care delivery systems, and the world’s preeminent military-medical enterprise. Saving lives on the battlefield and caring for 9.5 million beneficiaries in one of the nation’s largest health-benefit plans, the Military Health System (MHS) is embarking on a new chapter, ushering unprecedented reform to military medicine. This transformation marks a new way of doing business – from military treatment facility (MTF) management, to electronic health record (EHR) employment, to TRICARE benefit enhancements – and we are working hard to provide medical readiness and health-care delivery that is more integrated and effective than ever before…”
“As such, the DHA will be responsible for MTF budgetary matters; information technology; health-care administration and management; administrative policies and procedures; and military-medical construction. We began the first phase on October 1 with the hospitals and clinics at Fort Bragg, Pope Field and Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina; Naval Air Station Jacksonville, Florida; Keesler Air Force Base, Mississippi; and Joint Base Charleston, South Carolina…”
“The major initiatives underway within the MHS are important steps in answering the call of DoD Secretary Jim Mattis to focus on three lines of effort to execute the National Defense Strategy: enhancing lethality, expanding alliances and partnerships and reforming the way we do business…” Read the full article here.
Source: Transformation underway across the Military Health System – By Tom McCaffrey, January 29, 2019. Health.mil.
