“Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs Tom McCaffery today called on the Military Health System to continue to ‘adapt and evolve’ to deliver on the system’s mission to prepare a military medical force needed to meet current and future operational requirements.”
“Calling it his priority for the upcoming fiscal year, McCaffery has asked MHS senior leadership to develop and codify a formal strategic framework to guide the integration and optimization of all MHS components to meet his vision.”
“‘We owe to all of you here, and all of your colleagues throughout the MHS, a framework we will use to analyze the demand for current and future operational medical force requirements, identify gaps and risks … and build a corresponding roadmap outlining how the MHS reform efforts can be further leveraged to optimize our mission,’ McCaffery said…”
“McCaffery noted that ‘everyone with a role or stake in the MHS’ is already engaged in significant change as a result of ‘truly historic transformation,’ including the merger of all military hospitals and clinics to the DHA by the end of 2022.”
“MHS operates 475 hospitals and clinics and 248 dental clinics around the world. A milestone was achieved on Oct. 25, when DHA assumed administration and management of all stateside MTFs.”
“Additional initiatives in the transformation include plans to realign approximately 18,000 positions from the uniformed medical forces to operational forces over the next five years, a review of medical facility infrastructure to optimize medical readiness, TRICARE reform including the next-generation contract with an emphasis on value-based care, and the continued rollout of MHS GENESIS, the standardized electronic health record…” Read the full article here.
Source: McCaffery calls for military medical strategic framework for warfighting readiness – December 5, 2019. Military Health System.
