“Defense Department (DoD) officials today underscored the importance of the agency’s ongoing electronic health records (EHR) modernization efforts at a Senate Appropriations Committee Defense Subcommittee hearing on the Defense Health Program FY2020 budget request.”
“The hearing, which included testimony from Army, Air Force, and Navy leaders, covered a wide range of health initiatives including EHRs and the Army Futures Command (AFC)…”
“Similarly, Cummings also offered up her own lessons learned, including an emphasis on training, testing, and getting buy-in from DoD and medical leadership. She also touched on the importance of maintaining strong cybersecurity of medical data storied in Genesis. She explained that the DoD has “established continuous cyber assessments as a service, leveraging DoD’s formal Cooperative Vulnerability and Penetration Assessment and Adversarial Assessment processes to improve the overall cyber posture of MHS GENESIS.” She claimed that this approach…” Read the full article here.
Source: DoD Officials Update EHR Progress at Senate Hearing – April 3, 2019. MeriTalk.
