Where Do we Currently Stand? What are the Opportunities for Industry? What are the Emerging HIT Technologies Enabling the Way Ahead? This outstanding panel of leading EHR and Health I.T. experts will closely examine the complex constructs within the Military Health System & and the Defense Health Agency. The symposium will discuss critical information every DoD and Government Healthcare Professional should know including the way ahead in o...

Where Do We Currently Stand? What are the Opportunities for Industry? As part of the Omnibus Appropriations Bill, the Federal Government has set goals for the DoD and the VA around the former’s Electronic Health Record selection process and its work with the latter to achieve interagency interoperability with the VistA EHR. This Unique Symposium will Provide Attendees Critical and Timely Information on the Latest Advancements in Governme...

Military & Government EHRs and Health Data Interoperability, Where Are We Going? What Technologies will be Needed To Get There? What Are the Opportunities for Industry? How will Open Architecture Affect the Future Connectivity of the Military & Government Health IT Ecosystem? As part of the Omnibus Appropriations Bill, the Federal Government has set goals for the DoD and the VA around the former’s Electronic Health Record select...

Within the Military Health System (MHS), Electronic Health Records are now servicing over ten million patients and are being utilized by one hundred thirty seven thousand Military Health System staff, in 412 medical clinics, 413 dental clinics and more than 65 military hospitals and with a total budget of fifty billion dollars. However, there continue to be problems in getting the DoD EHR system (ALHTA) to interoperate efficiently with the Dep...

3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing – Revolutionizing Aerospace and Defense Innovation, Production, Logistics, and Readiness A recent report from McKinsey Global Institute named 3D printing one of 12 disruptive technologies that will “transform life, business and the global economy” within the next decade. Unlike traditional manufacturing, which involves creating a smaller object from a larger source material, 3D printing...

Within the Military Health System (MHS), Electronic Health Records are now servicing over ten million patients and are being utilized by 137,000 Military Health System staff, in 412 medical clinics, 413 dental clinics and more than 65 military hospitals and with a total budget of fifty billion dollars. However, there continue to be problems in getting the DoD EHR system (ALHTA) to interoperate efficiently with the Department of Veterans Affai...

Military EHRS — Where Do We Stand? Where Are We Going? – How Will We Get There? The DoD has been leading the way in developing and Implementing Military Integrated Electronic Health Records (iEHRs) for the Military Health System. Servicing almost 10,000,000 million patients, 137,000 thousand Medical Health System (MHS) staff, 412 medical clinics, 413 dental clinics and more than 65 military hospitals. Military EHRs data sharing co...

Healthcare Data Analytics – What You Need to Know about This Burgeoning New Field! The healthcare analytics market, already at almost $4 billion annually, is expected to grow to nearly $11 billion per year by 2017. In addition, the application of emerging Big data tools and analytics could help U.S. citizens save as much as$450 billion in healthcare costs, but fundamental change is necessary to meeting such goals, according to a new ana...

The DoD has been at the forefront of developing and installing Electronic Health Record Systems (EHRS), serving over nine million patients, one hundred thirty thousand Medical Health System (MHS) staff, over four hundred medical clinics and more than sixty military hospitals. Health care professionals in all fixed military medical facilities and in many deployed environments have access to EHRS. (By contrast, less than ten percent of US non-m...

The Department of Defense Healthcare costs have surged by more than 140% over the last eight years, a reflection of the trends that are propelling the current national discourse on Healthcare Reform. Prolonged conflicts overseas have stressed the Services' manpower capacities to their limits. At the same time, transformational advancements in Battlefield Medicine and Information Technologies are being funded, developed and implemented at a fan...