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Program Executive Office, Defense Healthcare Management Systems

The Program Executive Office, Defense Healthcare Management Systems was chartered to transform the delivery of health care and advance data sharing through a modernized electronic health record for service members, veterans, and their families.

Program Overview

PEO DHMS is an acquisition organization with a direct reporting relationship to the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment, and administratively attached to the Defense Health Agency.

In July 2015, the contract for MHS GENESIS was awarded to the Leidos Partnership for Defense Health. The Department of Defense acquired a widely used state-of-the-market EHR system.

Learn more about the PEO DHMS and its program management offices:

PEO DHMS Fact Sheet

Program Offices

The DHMSM Program Management Office oversees deployment, operations, and sustainment of MHS GENESIS®. DHMSM manages the acquisition, testing, delivery, integration, and successful operation and sustainment of MHS GENESIS, a state-of-the-market electronic health record and health care system solution that transforms the way the Department of Defense and Department of Veterans Affairs support military and veteran health care missions.

DHMSM strives to enable health care teams to deliver high-quality, safe care and preventive services to patients through the use of easily accessible standards-based computerized patient EHR, enabling:

  • Improved accuracy of diagnoses and impact on health outcomes
  • Increased patient participation in the health care process
  • Improved patient-centered care coordination
  • Increased practice efficiencies in all settings, including clinical and other operational environments

DHMSM continues to focus on enhancing functionalities to improve the total cost of care and readiness, while also advancing new ways to improve patient and provider experience and communications, superior patient safety, and to provide optimized health outcomes. 

The JOMIS Program Management Office is responsible for developing, deploying, sustaining, and modernizing operational medicine Information Technology systems that support the delivery of comprehensive health services to deployed forces across the full range of military operations.

  • Theater Medical Data Store is a Non-Classified Internet Protocol Router Network-based web system that allows providers to view and document a patient's complete operational electronic health record by compiling his/her health history from various electronic military health care systems within the operational environment.
  • Medical Common Operating Picture is the joint system of record and an interactive platform that enables medical command and control/medical situational awareness decision making, by leveraging enhanced digital tools to analyze and visualize data from the tactical to strategic levels. MedCOP facilitates real-time operational medicine information sharing and data synchronization across multiple network domains to provide a globally accessible, relevant, resilient, and integrated medical common operating picture. 
  • Operational Medicine Care Delivery Platform consists of health care delivery solutions designed to enhance operational health care and improve patient outcomes through intuitive, fit-for-purpose applications. These solutions optimize health care delivery at point of injury/illness allowing first responders to document care using the Battlefield Assisted Trauma Distribution Observation Kit application and also transfer data through en route care accurately and efficiently on a mobile device. The OpMed CDP enables deployed health care professionals to provide evidence-based care to treat Disease & Non-Battlefield Injuries and document sustained medical readiness at the respective role of care. The OpMed CDP also enables documentation of Damage Control Resuscitation at role 1 and role 2, and Damage Control Surgery at Role 2.
  • Theater Blood Mobile supports the wartime missions of the Armed Services Blood Program to provide overall blood management services to U.S. personnel deployed around the globe. TBLD-M provides decision-makers with accurate details of blood product available, as well as a detailed record for patient donor and transfusion history.
  • Maritime Medical Modules track medical readiness, environmental conditions, radiation exposure, and medical supplies through a central application managed by the Joint Operational Medicine Information Systems Program Management Office, under the Program Executive Office, Defense Healthcare Management Systems.
  • MHS GENESIS-Theater provides Role 3 OpMed sites with a robust Electronic Healthcare Record solution for management and documentation of patient care. MHSG-T provides the ability to document clinical and dental care for deployed service members. When operating in a comms-enabled environment, MHSG-T supports patient care data exchange from Role 1, Role 2, and Role 4 sites through OMDS and feeds the data back to the enterprise MHS GENESIS supporting Role 4 at military hospitals and clinics.

The EIDS Program Management Office supports the strategic goals of the MHS and facilitates informed decision-making through the delivery of robust information services and data in a timely, relevant, and actionable manner. They deliver, connect, and curate data across a diverse data ecosystem in support of Military Health, readiness, federal health data integration, and innovation. EIDS provides seamless data services and decision support for clinicians, patients, beneficiaries, analysts, researchers, and DOD leadership to support improved patient care.

EIDS provides service delivery and product line management, offering more than 100 products and services to DOD, Defense Health Agency, federal partners, academic, and research communities. They focus on providing the right data at the right time to the right person to drive organizational insights and better patient outcomes.

The primary capability supported by EIDS is the Military Health System Information Platform, the MIP, the largest secondary repository of health-related data in the DOD.

EIDS Five Core Capabilities:

  • Legacy Data Consolidation
  • Workflow Application
  • Information Portal
  • Analytics Workbench
  • Data Science Laboratory

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