Defense Health Agency

• Customer Experience
• Electronic Health Records
• Health care
• Health IT

DHA leaders said the agency is better serving patients through the use of partnerships and innovation.

• Artificial Intelligence

Experts say artificial intelligence is a game changer for breast cancer detection and will reduce health care disparities amid federal priorities in cancer care.

• Data
• Workforce

Agencies are turning to programs that incorporate personas and mission-specific applications to get their workforce trained on data operations.

• Deep Dives
• Electronic Health Records
• Report

The goal of the single, common federal EHR is to enhance patient care and provider effectiveness through digital health records that are interoperable across government.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Data

As public sector organizations modernize, leadership ensures sophisticated IT enterprises facilitate data sharing that advances their core missions.

The departments of Veterans Affairs and Defense joint electronic health records modernization (EHRM) initiative has shown considerable promise for widely improving the delivery of health care and allowing clinicians to provide more effective lifelong treatment to patients.

The need to provide remote care amidst COVID-19 has put new emphasis on the importance and uses of remote monitoring for patient care.

Successful long-term cloud-computing strategies necessitate process reforms and internal training, according to federal agency officials.

Federal health IT leaders are focusing on data, security, emerging technologies and human-centered design as some of their top priorities in the near term.

The ongoing electronic health records collaboration between the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Defense Health Agency is laying the groundwork for improvements in patient care, as well as showing promising signs to help advance public health across the nation as a whole.

• HealthCast

The Joint Trauma System is scaling to build a COVID-19 registry.

The Army has adopted the technology, especially in mental health care, as DHA has advanced telemedical capabilities.