The second wave of military medical facilities have adopted the Pentagon’s enterprise electronic health records system, MHS GENESIS, expanding the program to four more bases in the Western United States.
On Saturday, the MHS GENESIS system went live at three installations in California: David Grant Air Force Medical Center at Travis Air Force Base; Naval Health Clinic Lemoore at Naval Air Station Lemoore and Army Health Clinic Presidio of Monterey, and at the 366th Medical Group at Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho.
The MHS GENESIS system, developed by health records company Cerner, was designed to overhaul and further digitize the Defense Department’s current records management application and make the entire system interoperable with private sector providers and the Veterans Affairs Department.
VA is in the midst of deploying its new EHR system, which is also being developed by Cerner.
“Implementing a new health care delivery system like MHS GENESIS is about enhancing quality and safety,” Air Force Maj. Gen. Lee Payne, assistant director for combat support at the Defense Health Agency and the MHS GENESIS functional champion, said in a statement Monday. “As a provider myself, I understand this all too well. That’s why MHS GENESIS is designed to foster better management of chronic, complex and time-sensitive conditions. It provides automated real-time clinical decision support for providers and enables patients to communicate directly with their doctors.”
The first wave of EHR system deployment was in the Pacific Northwest, which included Fairchild Air Force Base, Naval Hospital Bremerton, Naval Health Clinic Oak Harbor and Madigan Army Medical Center. Doctor ..
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