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Delivering Solutions, Advancing Health Care
Mission
To enhance medical readiness and health care delivery through optimized, modernized, and cost-efficient information, simulation, technology, and medical devices acquisition program management, solutions, and services to empower the Department of Defense and our partners.
Vision
To be the premier provider of enterprise information, simulation, technology and medical devices acquisition program management solutions to enhance medical readiness and health care delivery.
Key Functions
The SDD provides and sustains information technology capabilities that support the delivery of health care to our service members from battlefield to the home front. Key SDD solutions:
- Support more than 9 million eligible product users
- Document clinical encounters and data
- Process 25,000 requisitions and over $13 million of medical supplies and pharmaceuticals daily
- Empower patients with access to online military hospital and clinic health care services and information
- Provide near real time global medical surveillance
- Manage clinical provider credentials and privileging
- Track billions of dollars annually in health care services
- Support patient safety, nutrition services, blood programs, Service Treatment Records, care coordination, occupational health, and more!
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Our Teams
CBIS PMO systems make it easier for a veteran to share their health records with the Department of Veterans Affairs when they retire from the military. CBIS PMO securely stores, assembles, and sends a veteran’s records to the VA to use to decide what benefits the veteran will receive.
Clinical Support Program Management Office’s systems give staff and managers tools to help military hospitals and clinics provide the best care possible. These tools help track costs, allow patients to order eyeglasses, and track patients’ health risk from chemical exposures.
HSS PMO buys, sets up, and supports systems that help military hospitals and clinics, patients, and readiness.
ICS PMO buys and manages all x-ray, surgical, and radiation treatment devices. They provide modern and affordable products for the DHA.
LEAP retires health record systems no longer in use. LEAP ensures safe data transfer and provider access to all records at military hospitals and clinics around the world.
MEDLOG IT PMO helps military hospitals and clinics get the medical supplies they need. Their systems provide tools for managing the supply chain of the Military Health System.
MST PMO prepares medics for crisis situations through advanced simulation and training. At some of their trainings, students get to treat surgical mannequins in simulated warzones. This gives medics a chance to practice high-risk procedures in a risk-free setting.
The Technology Support Branch helps Defense Health Agency programs meet cyber security rules, reviews systems for weaknesses and helps with system design. TSB works with each team to reach their goals through quality contracts and security plans that keep patient information safe.
WMT PMO builds and supports innovative mobile apps and websites for the Defense Health Agency. WMT PMO hosts more than 16 mobile apps available to patients and providers. They also maintain many websites and collaboration sites.
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Last Updated: October 03, 2024