Military Health System

Bug Week Kickoff Announcement

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Standing Orders for Administering Hepatitis A Vaccine (Pediatric)

Immunization standing orders are approved protocols that authorize appropriately trained health care personnel to assess patient immunization status and administer vaccinations without a written provider order or examination.

Metastatic Cancer Research

H.R. 4432 HAC-D Report for FY 2022 177-88, Pg. 333-334

Addressing Health Barriers to Military Service

H.R. 4432 HAC-D Report for FY 2022 117-88, Pg. 338

Mandatory Use of the Defense Medical Logistics Standard Support Facilities Management/LogiCole Facilities Management Systems

Policy Number: 4165.01

Establishes DHA's procedures for the mandatory use of the Defense Medical Logistics Standard Support-Facilities Management, and its technical replacement system known as LogiCole Facilities Management as the Computer-Aided Facilities Management and Computerized Maintenance Management System systems of record.

Pain Management and Opioid Safety in Military Medical Treatment Facilities

Policy Number: 6025.08

Establishes the VA-DOD Stepped Care Model for Pain Management as the comprehensive standardized pain management model for the DHA to provide consistent, quality, and safe care for patients with pain with an emphasis on multidisciplinary, multi-modal, and nonpharmacologic pain management

Walk-in Contraception Services at Military Medical Treatment Facilities

Policy Number: 6025.09

Establishes DHA's procedures for implementation of walk-in contraception services at all Military Medical Treatment Facilities, for Active Duty members of the Armed Forces and for eligible beneficiaries of the Military Health System on a space available basis.

Anatomic Gifts and Tissue Donation

Policy Number: 6465.01

Establishes DHA's procedures for organ and tissue donation. This applies to the donation of human organs and tissues, for transplantation, therapy, research, or education..

Military Health System GENESIS Training

Policy Number: 21-003

The MHS is transitioning to MHS GENESIS, the DOD’s modernized Electronic Health Record system, to provide enhanced, secure technology to manage health information. While enterprise solution standards control the MHS GENESIS design across the entire MHS and are not specific to one site, the individual components are responsible for ensuring proposed MHS GENESIS end users are properly trained prior to being granted access to the EHR system.

Email Management

Policy Number: 5015.02

Assigns responsibilities and establishes procedures for managing and retaining emails using the National Archives and Records Administration's Capstone Email Management Approach.

Code Purple for Obstetric and Neonatal Emergencies

Policy Number: 6025.20

Establishes DHA's procedures to standardize the emergency code, Code Purple, for obstetric and neonatal emergencies. These emergencies could be maternal, neonatal or include both birth parent and neonate.

Guidance for Gender-Affirming Health Care of Transgender and Gender-Diverse Active and Reserve Component Service Members

Policy Number: 6025.15

Establishes DHA's procedures to provide health care for transgender and gender-diverse service members and to establish a process for in-service gender transition.

Forms Management Program, Change 1

Policy Number: 5010.01

Establishes DHA's procedures to manage and maintain the DHA Forms Management Program.

Guidance for Service Implementation of Code Purple for Obstetric Emergencies

Policy Number: 6025.30

Establishes DHA's procedures implementing the emergency code, Code Purple, for obstetric (OB) and/or neonatal emergencies.

Virtual Health: Privacy and Safety

Virtual health, telehealth, and telemedicine all mean the same thing. These terms describe a patientusing technology (computer, smartphone, or tablet, for example) to access their health care.