Military Health Topics

Learn about topics like the TRICARE health plan, how the Military Health System ensures patient safety, the steps taken by the clinical information management specialists to ensure data in MHS systems is correct, and proposals for changes to TRICARE in the Fiscal Year 2015 Department of Defense budget request.

• MHS Quality, Patient Safety, and Access Information (for Patients)
• Access to Health Care
• Information for Providers

• Health Care Program Evaluation
• Military Health System Review Report
• Quality and Safety of Health Care (for Health Care Professionals)

If you are a vendor interested in doing business with the Defense Health Agency, you can find information about the Component Acquisition Executive office, the Office of Small Business Programs, and the Office of Procurement in this topic. Highlights include contact information, upcoming events for vendors, and a forecasts of business opportunities.

• Component Acquisition Executive
• Procurement

• Small Business Programs
• Vendor Information Form

In Business Support, we leverage Military Health System expertise to consolidate and standardize business operations, streamline decision-making, and reduce administrative costs, resulting in a more effective, audit-ready enterprise.

• Data Quality Management Control Program

• Rates and Reimbursement
• Uniform Business Office

Military Health System Centers of Excellence were established to to speed the advancement of our scientific knowledge and evidence-based practices.

• Extremity Trauma and Amputation Center of Excellence

• Psychological Health Center of Excellence
• Traumatic Brain Injury Center of Excellence

Provide a medically ready force to Combatant Commands in peace and war

• Armed Forces Health Surveillance Division
• Armed Forces Medical Examiner System
• Armed Services Blood Program

• Defense Medical Readiness Training Institute
• Medical Logistics
• Public Health

Information about research and treatment of exposures, injuries and diseases related to Military service and deployment.

• Cognitive Rehabilitation Therapy
• Comprehensive Changes to the Autism Care Demonstration
• HIV/AIDS Prevention and Treatment
• Opioid Safety

• Pain Management
• Substance Abuse
• Traumatic Brain Injury
• Warrior Care

To ensure we provide the most up-to-date information regarding the COVID-19 pandemic, the Military Health System created this all-inclusive information center, which is updated regularly. The Department of Defense is following guidance from the White House and coordinating with our interagency partners to provide a comprehensive, government-approved list of resources.

• COVID-19 Vaccine Efforts

• Convalescent Plasma Collection Program
• COVID-19 Information for Military Treatment Facility Directors

The Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (DASD) for Health Readiness Policy and Oversight is the principal staff assistant and advisor to the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Health Affairs) for all medically related Department of Defense policies, programs, and activities. The office is responsible for deployment medicine, force health protection, medical readiness, international health agreements, deployment related health policy, theater information systems, humanitarian and health missions, and national disaster support.

• Biological Surveillance Tools
• Civil Military Medicine
• Environmental Exposures

• Global Health Engagement
• Immunization Healthcare
• Bug-Borne Illnesses
• Pandemic Diseases

These Communications Toolkits provide customizable, ready-to-use material to promote consistent messaging on key topics and issues. Download the toolkit for enterprise messages and ready to-use tactics, including talking points, social media posts and graphics for each of these topics and more.

• Brand Resources for Communicators
• Coronavirus and the COVID-19 Vaccine
• Autism Care Demonstration Toolkit
• Beneficiary Web Enrollment (BWE) Overseas Toolkit
• Brain Injury Awareness Toolkit
• DEERS Toolkit
• Dental Health
• Disaster Prep Toolkit
• Global Health Engagement Toolkit
• Health Innovation Toolkit
• Heart Health Toolkit
• Injury Prevention for Mission Fitness
• Mental Health Toolkit
• MHS GENESIS Toolkit
• MHS Video Connect Toolkit

• Month of the Military Child Toolkit
• Pain Management Toolkit
• Preventive Health Toolkit
• Provider Resilience Toolkit
• Ready Reliable Care Communications Toolkit
• Seasonal Influenza Vaccine Toolkit
• Sexual Assault Awareness & Prevention Toolkit
• Suicide Prevention Toolkit
• Summer Safety Toolkit
• Total Force Fitness Toolkit
• TRICARE Low Back Pain and Physical Therapy Demonstration Toolkit
• Vision and Hearing Loss Prevention
• Warrior Care – A Virtual Show of Strength
• Weight Management for Lasting Health
• December Toolkit
• Holidays and Observances
  • January
  • February
  • March
  • April
  • May
  • June
  • July
  • August
  • September
  • October
  • November
  • December

We’re transforming the Military Health System to improve the readiness of our forces and the health care we provide to our warfighters, retirees and their families. Reform efforts focus on organizational, infrastructure and manpower changes.

• DHA Health Care Market Structure
• Electronic Health Record: MHS GENESIS

• Restructuring and Realignment
• Readiness Capabilities
• Transition Timeline

Military medicine has a long and celebrated history. We apply lessons from our past to improve the care of military personnel and their families today and in the future. New surgical techniques, powerful painkillers, antibiotic drugs, and triage and evacuation procedures have revolutionized military medicine.

• Military Health Medal of Honor Recipients
• MHS Honors and Remembers
• MHS Remembers 9/11

• Multi-Service Markets: Our Pathway to the Health Care Market Structure
• National Museum of Health and Medicine
• Nursing in the Military Health System
• Paving the Way for African Americans in Military Medicine: A Look Across Time

The MHS takes protection of patient information very seriously. Here you can find: information about how MHS handles breaches of information, tools to use the Freedom of Information Act, training available related to the Privacy Act and the Health Information Portability and Accountability Act, information on the MHS Privacy Board, information about contract language, Privacy Impact Assessments for MHS IT systems, and information about how MHS protects privacy in research.

• Breaches of PII and PHI
• Freedom of Information Act
• HIPAA Compliance within the MHS
• Privacy Act and HIPAA Privacy Training
• Privacy Act at DHA

• Privacy Board
• DHA Privacy Contract Language
• Privacy Impact Assessments
• Research Streamlining Initiative
• Submit a Data Sharing Application
• Uphold Civil Liberties

Defense Department’s overall investment for medical research and development (R&D) with Research, Development, Testing, and Development (RDT&E) dollars.

• Health Innovation Month
• Innovation

• Medical Research and Development
• Privacy, Information Collection and Human Research Tool

Covers topics spanning from the operational infrastructure of the Military Health System to specific health related technologies on and off the battlefield.

• Claims Processing
  • Coding and Compliance Editor
  • Patient Encounter Processing and Reporting
  • TRICARE Encounter Data
• Clinical Support
  • Centralized Credentials Quality Assurance System
  • Military Health System Data Repository
  • Military Health System Management Analysis and Reporting Tool
  • Nutrition Management Information System
  • Patient Safety Reporting
  • Secure Messaging
  • Special Needs Program Management Information System
• Connected Health
  • MHS Video Connect
  • Military Mental Health Podcasts
  • Telehealth Program
  • Usability Lab
• Cybersecurity Awareness
• Defense Medical Logistics
  • Defense Medical Logistics Standard Support
  • Defense Medical Logistics Standard Support Customer Assistance Module
  • Joint Medical Asset Repository
  • Theater Enterprise Wide Logistics Systems
• Ektropy

• Federal Electronic Health Record Modernization (FEHRM) Program Office
• Healthcare Resources
  • Defense Medical Human Resource System internet
  • Expense Assignment System Version IV
  • Protected Health Information Management Tool
• Joint Health Information Exchange
• MHS Service Helpdesk
• Support Areas
  • Geographic Reference Information
  • Information Assurance
  • Leveraging Open Source Technologies
  • Managers' Internal Control Program
  • MDR, M2, ICDs Functional Support
  • Requirements Submissions
• WISDOM Training

Welcome to Total Force Fitness, a program that focuses on your entire health throughout your military career. Readiness is measured in more than just physical fitness and medical status. Through Total Force Fitness, we’re going to talk about other areas in your life – like social, spiritual, environmental, and financial – to make sure you and your community are ready for you to do your job. Because we’re changing the way we talk about health, we created this portal to give you the latest news in Total Force Fitness and information on how its dimensions affect total health.

• Physical Fitness
• Environmental Fitness
• Medical and Dental Preventive Care Fitness
• Nutritional Fitness

• Spiritual Fitness
• Psychological Fitness
• Social Fitness
• Financial Fitness
• Health Tools