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
• Health Care Program Evaluation

• Military Health System Review Report
• Quality and Safety of Health Care (for Healthcare Professionals)
• Value-Based Reimbursement Demonstration Project

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
• HIPAA Transactions, Code Sets & Identifiers
  • Transactions
  • Code Sets
  • Identifiers

• Rates and Reimbursement
• Uniform Business Office

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

• Armed Forces Health Surveillance Branch
• Armed Forces Medical Examiner System
• Interprofessional Continuing Education

• 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.

• Adjustments After Deployment
• Assessments
• Autism Care Demonstration
• HIV/AIDS Prevention and Treatment
• Mental Health Care

• Opioid Safety
• Pain Management
• Physical Disability
• Substance Abuse
• Warrior Care

The Department of Defense (DOD) officials are closely monitoring the outbreak of the respiratory illness caused by the 2019 Novel (New) Coronavirus (2019 -NCOV also commonly referred to as COVID-19), which was first detected in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China. DOD will closely coordinate with our interagency partners to ensure accurate and timely information is available and encourage all appropriate measures are taken to limit the virus' spread. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the CDC are the federal government leads for the response to the virus.

• Additional DoD Resources

• Additional MHS Resources

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.

• Education and Training
  • About
  • Portfolio
  • Training Request
  • Contact
• Biological Surveillance Tools
• Civil Military Medicine
• Environmental Exposures

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

This page describes how the DHA plans to implement the transition of MTFs

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

• Small Business Programs

• Vendor Information Form

Health is one of our most important possessions and is largely determined by daily lifestyle. Good health and vitality are based on a foundation of proper nutrition, physical activity, sleep, avoidance of risky behaviors, and emotional well-being. DoD wants to make healthy living the easier choice and social norm for you and those around you. We have compiled a set of tools and resources that can be tailored to each individual, based on their particular needs and preferences. The Operation Live Well team is here to guide, hopefully motivate, and encourage you with your healthy lifestyle.

• Focus Areas
  • Integrative Wellness
  • Mental Wellness
  • Nutrition
  • Physical Activity
  • Tobacco-Free Living

• Preventive Health
• Health Tools

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
• 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.

• Hearing Center of Excellence Research Coordination Directorate
• MHSRS 2019
• Innovation

• Medical Research and Development
• Military Health System Studies Inventory Tool
• Privacy, Information Collection and Human Research Tool
• Research Regulatory Oversight Office

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
  • Third Party Outpatient Collection System
  • 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
• Claims Processing
  • Military Mental Health Podcasts
  • Telehealth Program
  • Usability Lab
• 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
• DHITS 2019

• Healthcare Resources
  • Defense Medical Human Resource System internet
  • Expense Assignment System Version IV
  • Protected Health Information Management Tool
• Military Health System Electronic Health Record
• Support Areas
  • Geographic Reference Information
  • Information Assurance
  • Leveraging Open Source Technologies
  • Managers' Internal Control Program
  • MDR, M2, ICDs Functional Support
  • Requirements Submissions
• Virtual Lifetime Electronic Record Health Information Exchange Initiative
• WISDOM Training