“Emerging technologies and better data collection can improve medical care delivery on the battlefield and at home, according to panelists at GovernmentCIO Media & Research’s Military Health Summit last week.”
“The Defense Department has been undergoing transitioning its paper health records to its new electronic health record system, MHS GENESIS. The agency expects to fully implement the new common record by 2024.”
“But migrating to EHR — like migrating to the cloud — comes with its own challenges…”
“’If you ask any clinician, migration to EHR even on the commercial side was met with a lot of trepidation mostly because it could take time away from the patients,’ said Drew Koerner, medical CTO at ServiceNow. ‘It’s a portability, security thing. If you’re taking time away from that veteran, whether they’re in an austere setting or at home, that’s a negative. We have to make this as easy as possible for clinicians to get in and out.’”
“Something like dictation software could help doctors and clinicians transfer medical data more easily to an EHR system. The key is ‘automating the input process so we can reduce the number of clicks,’ Koerner said…”
“Automation and artificial intelligence are two prominent technologies shaping military medical care delivery…”
“The recent surge in medical device use comes with its own risks and benefits for DOD.”
“’We’re connecting devices we’ve never connected before,’ Rao said. ‘With more and more episodes of ransomware — there’s growing understanding and appreciation of the need to protect not just the patient’s data, but also safeguard it from malicious attacks, whether ransomware or other nefarious purposes. Other state actors are highly interested in high ranking personnel and patients we’ve seen.’”
“But ransomware and other cyber attacks aren’t the only risks associated with increased technology and medical device use…”
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Source: Emerging Tech Shapes the Next Generation of Military Health Care — By Kate Macri, April 19, 2021. GovernmentCIO.
