Department of Defense and Defense Health Agency MHS GENESIS experts continue to improve the federal electronic health records system for patients and national health care.

Through a rigorous and comprehensive evaluation process that spanned 14 months, the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma recently reverified Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, Germany, as the only U.S. Level II Trauma Center, military or civilian, overseas.

U.S. Air Force Col. (Dr.) Thomas Cantilina, the deputy Military Health System EHR functional champion at the Defense Health Agency and chief health informatics officer, is set to retire from duty in October. In these final months of his military career, he reflects on his role in helping the DOD launch its single electronic health record worldwide.

The job of safeguarding the health of U.S. service members requires not just health care at the time of injury and sickness, but a vast suite of often unseen work to determine what illnesses service members might encounter, and to develop the countermeasures for an ever-evolving landscape of health risks that face the world.

A team of five medical experts from Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, Germany, travelled to Kaunus, Lithuania, recently where they spent a week discussing delayed evacuation casualty care with members of the Lithuanian Military Medicine Center of Excellence.

The U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery recently recognized U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman 1st Class Jason S. Kutzler as the U.S. Navy Medicine Senior Independent Duty Corpsman of the Year.

Nalu, a 2-year-old Labrador retriever, is a full-time Tripler Army Medical Center hospital facility dog. He is present in the Child and Family Behavioral Health Service Clinic, where he works alongside Dr. Kathryn Egan, a child psychiatrist, and licensed clinical social workers.

U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Miranda Parkhurst, a native of Truckee, California, identified an opportunity to streamline services and cut health care costs through utilization of telehealth for visiting otorhinolaryngology providers.

Do you get prescriptions at a military pharmacy? If you need to request a refill or a renewal for your prescription, the MHS GENESIS Patient Portal makes it easy.

The 7450th Medical Operational Readiness Unit Det 64 relinquished authority of the Deployed Warrior Medical Management Center at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, Germany, to the 7451st Medical Operational Readiness Unit Det 2, during a transfer of authority ceremony July 8, 2024.

Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command Pearl Harbor held a change of command ceremony at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam June 28.

Soldiers from U.S. Army Health Clinic in Ansbach, Germany, participated in a valuable and realistic joint training exercise with the Bundeswehr's Transport Helicopter Regiment 30 "TAUBERFRANKEN” and German firefighters during a medical emergency response exercise in Niederstetten, Germany, June 20.

Health data sharing and exchange boost the value of the data inside and outside of the Department of Defense.

The MHS GENESIS Patient Portal lets you speak to your military health care team at your military hospital or clinic through secure messaging. Learn how and when to use secure messaging.