“The Department of Defense (DoD) is focusing on three areas in upgrading its healthcare IT infrastructure in preparation for implementation of its new Cerner-based MHS GENESIS electronic health record (EHR) system.”
“The three areas are wide area network infrastructure, medical device cybersecurity, and enterprise services architecture, said Tom Hines, chief architect for networks and security at the Defense Health Agency (DHA), during a media roundtable held on July 30.”
“’Our efforts to upgrade the infrastructure primarily concentrate on wide area network infrastructure, which is the circuits and the amount of bandwidth being provided to the facility. Previously, we did not necessarily have redundant communication infrastructure supporting all of our medical treatment facilities. That is a change we are making with this implementation since it is based upon deployment to a central data center; that obviously has to be very robust,’ said Hines.” Read the full article here.
Source: DoD Tackles Healthcare IT Infrastructure Upgrades for MHS GENESIS – By Fred Donovan, July 31, 2019. HIT Infrastructure.
