[{"innerBlocks":[],"name":"core\/freeform","postId":132,"blockType":{"name":"core\/freeform","keywords":[],"attributes":{"content":{"type":"string","source":"raw"},"lock":{"type":"object"}},"providesContext":[],"usesContext":[],"selectors":[],"supports":{"className":false,"customClassName":false,"reusable":false},"styles":[],"variations":[],"apiVersion":3,"title":"Classic","description":"Use the classic WordPress editor.","category":"text"},"originalContent":"The Department of Defense contends that its implementation in September of a new Cerner electronic health record system at four more military medical facilities has gone off without a hitch.DoD says that 120 days after its rollout of the Cerner EHR system, called MHS GENESIS, it is \u201crunning smooth\u201d at one site in Idaho\u2014366th Medical Group at Mountain Home Air Force Base\u2014and three sites in California\u2014David Grant USAF Medical Center at Travis Air Force Base, Naval Health Clinic Lemoore at Naval Air Station Lemoore, and U.S. Army Health Clinic Presidio of Monterey.

MHS GENESIS was first launched in 2017 at military medical facilities in the Pacific Northwest. However, the initial rollout of the Cerner Millennium platform to pilot sites was not without some major challenges.The system was deemed \u201cneither operationally effective nor operationally suitable,\u201d according to a 2018 report from DoD\u2019s director of operational test and evaluation (DOT&E) that was based on an assessment of three of four pilot sites in Washington state.However, on Wednesday, DoD announced that \u201cfollowing rigorous testing, training and change management efforts\u201d the Wave Travis rollout to the four newest MHS GENESIS sites has been deemed a success.\u201cIn 2019, we launched a new electronic health record across all Wave Travis sites with no serious patient safety issues,\u201d William Tinston, program executive officer for the Program Executive Office Defense Health Care Management Systems, told members of the media.\u201cThis deployment in Wave Travis was much smoother than what we saw in the (initial operational capability),\u201d added Air Force Maj. Gen. Lee Payne, assistant director for combat support at the Defense Health Agency and MHS GENESIS functional champion.According to Payne, the total number of \u201ctrouble tickets\u201d or complaints and support requests generated from users during the Wave Travis rollout to the four newest MHS GENESIS sites was about a third of what DoD\u2019s four initial operational capability sites experienced. MHS GENESIS is being rolled out in \u201cplanned waves\u201d and is on track for full deployment worldwide by the end of Calendar Year 2023, according to DoD officials, who said the next three installations\u2014scheduled for 2020\u2014will be at other military medical facilities in Alaska, California and Nevada.In 2015, the Pentagon awarded a $4.3 billion contract to prime contractor Leidos to modernize the military\u2019s EHR system, which is slated for deployment worldwide to support healthcare delivery for 9.4 million DoD beneficiaries. The Leidos-led team includes consultancy Accenture, dental software vendor Henry Schein and Cerner, which provides the core Millennium capability.With the Wave Travis rollout to the four newest MHS GENESIS sites, Payne acknowledged that DoD experienced scalability challenges with Henry Schein\u2019s Dentrix dental practice software. \u201cWe had some friction points with Dentrix, which the team was able to overcome and get it to function well,\u201d he said. \u201cBut, we need to look into the future about Dentrix scalability.\u201dThe Department of Veterans Affairs intends to create a single common EHR system with DoD by leveraging a shared Cerner Millennium platform that enables the VA\u2019s and DoD\u2019s patient data to reside in one system, eliminating the manual and electronic exchange and reconciliation of data between two separate systems. However, VA has decided not to use Henry Schein\u2019s Dentrix solution as part of its EHR modernization initiative. The agency does not believe that the Henry Schein product is up to snuff when it comes to meeting its requirements.Asked if the VA\u2019s decision not to use Dentrix will impact interoperability with DoD, Tinston replied that regardless of what dental software capability the VA adopts \u201cwe don\u2019t have an interoperability problem\u201d because it will be \u201cintegrated into the common record\u201d and \u201cwe\u2019re sharing across the two departments.\u201d","saveContent":"The Department of Defense contends that its implementation in September of a new Cerner electronic health record system at four more military medical facilities has gone off without a hitch.DoD says that 120 days after its rollout of the Cerner EHR system, called MHS GENESIS, it is \u201crunning smooth\u201d at one site in Idaho\u2014366th Medical Group at Mountain Home Air Force Base\u2014and three sites in California\u2014David Grant USAF Medical Center at Travis Air Force Base, Naval Health Clinic Lemoore at Naval Air Station Lemoore, and U.S. Army Health Clinic Presidio of Monterey.

MHS GENESIS was first launched in 2017 at military medical facilities in the Pacific Northwest. However, the initial rollout of the Cerner Millennium platform to pilot sites was not without some major challenges.The system was deemed \u201cneither operationally effective nor operationally suitable,\u201d according to a 2018 report from DoD\u2019s director of operational test and evaluation (DOT&E) that was based on an assessment of three of four pilot sites in Washington state.However, on Wednesday, DoD announced that \u201cfollowing rigorous testing, training and change management efforts\u201d the Wave Travis rollout to the four newest MHS GENESIS sites has been deemed a success.\u201cIn 2019, we launched a new electronic health record across all Wave Travis sites with no serious patient safety issues,\u201d William Tinston, program executive officer for the Program Executive Office Defense Health Care Management Systems, told members of the media.\u201cThis deployment in Wave Travis was much smoother than what we saw in the (initial operational capability),\u201d added Air Force Maj. Gen. Lee Payne, assistant director for combat support at the Defense Health Agency and MHS GENESIS functional champion.According to Payne, the total number of \u201ctrouble tickets\u201d or complaints and support requests generated from users during the Wave Travis rollout to the four newest MHS GENESIS sites was about a third of what DoD\u2019s four initial operational capability sites experienced. MHS GENESIS is being rolled out in \u201cplanned waves\u201d and is on track for full deployment worldwide by the end of Calendar Year 2023, according to DoD officials, who said the next three installations\u2014scheduled for 2020\u2014will be at other military medical facilities in Alaska, California and Nevada.In 2015, the Pentagon awarded a $4.3 billion contract to prime contractor Leidos to modernize the military\u2019s EHR system, which is slated for deployment worldwide to support healthcare delivery for 9.4 million DoD beneficiaries. The Leidos-led team includes consultancy Accenture, dental software vendor Henry Schein and Cerner, which provides the core Millennium capability.With the Wave Travis rollout to the four newest MHS GENESIS sites, Payne acknowledged that DoD experienced scalability challenges with Henry Schein\u2019s Dentrix dental practice software. \u201cWe had some friction points with Dentrix, which the team was able to overcome and get it to function well,\u201d he said. \u201cBut, we need to look into the future about Dentrix scalability.\u201dThe Department of Veterans Affairs intends to create a single common EHR system with DoD by leveraging a shared Cerner Millennium platform that enables the VA\u2019s and DoD\u2019s patient data to reside in one system, eliminating the manual and electronic exchange and reconciliation of data between two separate systems. However, VA has decided not to use Henry Schein\u2019s Dentrix solution as part of its EHR modernization initiative. The agency does not believe that the Henry Schein product is up to snuff when it comes to meeting its requirements.Asked if the VA\u2019s decision not to use Dentrix will impact interoperability with DoD, Tinston replied that regardless of what dental software capability the VA adopts \u201cwe don\u2019t have an interoperability problem\u201d because it will be \u201cintegrated into the common record\u201d and \u201cwe\u2019re sharing across the two departments.\u201d","order":0,"get_parent":{},"attributes":[],"attributesType":{"content":{"type":"string","source":"raw"},"lock":{"type":"object"}},"dynamicContent":""}]

DoD: EHR at new sites ‘running smooth’ 120 days after rollout

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