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#VeteranOfTheDay Army Veteran John Garcia
Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Army Veteran John Garcia. John served during Operation Iraqi Freedom. John graduated from Texas Christian University in 2005. He served as an Armor Officer for almost five years at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii. [From VAntage Point]
We honor your service, John!
NAACP Celebrates Military Veterans at the 108th Annual National Convention
In recognition of their service to the country, NAACP’s past and current members of the Armed Services are invited to a Veteran’s luncheon, featuring a keynote address by Representative Al Green (D- Texas). Two awards will be presented at the event: The Julius E. Williams Community Service Award and the Roy Wilkins Renowned Service Award. [From NAACP]
VA to Create One-Stop Facility for Maui Veterans
Maui Veterans, who fought for years to consolidate medical, psychological and administrative services into a single location to reduce confusion, travel and overcrowding, claimed a significant victory Wednesday with the announcement of the approval of a new lease for a facility near Maui High School in Kahului. U.S. Sen. Mazie Hirono made the announcement of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs approving the lease to build the island’s one-stop facility for Veterans at the Maui High site in a news release Wednesday afternoon. [From The Maui News]
Native American Veterans Gather at Cantigny
Native American Veterans of all wars and of all tribes convened at Cantigny Park in Wheaton this weekend for the third annual National Gathering of American Indian Veterans. Saturday morning began with the formal grand entry for all of the Veterans who’d made the journey. [From Daily Herald]
#VeteranOfTheDay Dodson Moore Curry
Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Army Veteran Dodson Moore Curry. Dodson, a newly wed physician, was just beginning to expand his practice and had started planning his first house when he got the call to serve in the Korean War. Even after he got on a plane for the Far East, Curry still couldn’t believe that he was going off to war. [From VAntage Point]
We honor your service, Dodson!
#VeteranOfTheDay Jennifer McNeill
Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Army Veteran Jennifer McNeill. Jennifer enlisted in the Army April 1976. She completed her basic training at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, and advanced individual training at Fort Sam Houston, Texas where she trained as a dental assistant. [From VAntage Point]
We honor your service, Jennifer!
#VeteranOfTheDay Yeiichi "Kelly" Kuwayama
Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Army Veteran Yeiichi “Kelly” Kuwayama. For over a year after Pearl Harbor, Japanese Americans were not allowed to enlist in the military. But Kelly had been drafted long before December 7, 1941, so he was in a kind of limbo: part of the armed forces but not allowed to fight. [From VAntage Point]
We honor his service.
VA Testing Mobile App That Helps Tailor Care Based on Each Veteran's Genetics
When a new system being field tested this summer goes live, VA will become the first U.S. health care organization ever to put genetic testing data into the hands of patients via a mobile application. The system, named Genetic Diagnostic Testing App – called GDx – will put individual genetic information in the hands of Veterans – providing them with access to their information anywhere, anytime, as well as the ability to share it with VA and non-VA providers alike. [From VAntage Point]
#VeteranOfTheDay Lee Briggs
Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Air Force Veteran Lee Brigs. Lee served from 1968-1975. Lee was drafted in 1968 and joined the Air Force. He served as a technical sergeant in the personnel field. [From VAntage Point]
We honor your service, Lee!
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Health IT team working on creating an information ecosystemHighly interactive environment benefits patients, providers
Imagine driving to an appointment at a military treatment facility. As your arrival is captured by a virtual perimeter, or geofence, a smart phone alert directs you to an open parking spot. At the same time, the primary care manager, or PCM, receives an alert with your estimated time of arrival. If the PCM has a backlog of patients, you receive an alert redirecting you to a physician who’s available to review your records and meet with you as soon as you’re inside the building.
During your appointment, the PCM determines that you need medication. As you’re checking out, you receive an alert that a prescription’s being filled, with walking directions from your current location to the pharmacy. Meantime, your electronic calendar is syncing with the providers’ to schedule a follow-up appointment. If you have any questions, you can easily send a secure message or arrange a video chat.
This experience isn’t merely wishful thinking. It could become reality, thanks to the Military Health System’s health information technology team. HIT is working on innovations that improve patient satisfaction and care while enhancing safety, security, and privacy.
Shannon Hagy, president of the Bethesda, Maryland, chapter of the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association, presents Mark Goodge, the Military Health System’s chief technology officer, with the InnovateIT Outstanding Achievement Award-DoD. (Courtesy photo)
One of those innovations is complex event processing, which is depicted in the above scenario. Mark Goodge, chief technology officer of the Military Health System, describes it as “taking the ‘eaches’ – each little thing that’s done individually – and linking them to create an ecosystem of information.”
This ecosystem enables providers, patients, and even the facility itself to respond to various conditions, said Goodge, who’s also division chief for HIT innovation and advanced technology.
“Some of this technology is already available,” said Andrew “Jake” Jacobs, the Defense Health Agency’s chief of strategy and planning for innovations and advanced technology development.
Linking it is the difficult part. A typical treatment facility has more than 20 information technology systems. They include business processes for admissions and billing; information flows, such as patients’ electronic health records; and data reporting and analytics to measure clinical procedures and patient outcomes.
“We’re working on the ability to combine data from a variety of sources to enable actionable decisions and create a cohesive view of what’s happening at any particular medical treatment facility,” Jacobs said.
HIT works with its business partners to turn their ideas for innovation into reality. Part of HIT’s role is to consider not only the impact of the innovation itself, but also any second-order effects. “It’s like dominoes,” Goodge said. “One action sparks a chain of events.”
Health information technology innovation is a particularly complex orchestration, Goodge said. “Think about it like ducks moving through water. On the surface, everything looks so smooth and easy, but down below, their feet are moving really fast.”
Last month, Goodge was awarded the InnovateIT Outstanding Achievement Award-DoD from the Bethesda, Maryland, chapter of the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association. He was honored for leveraging technology to help improve health care tools for MHS providers worldwide.
“We’re in a very data-driven environment today,” he said, “and it’s not going to slow down. We always need to push the boundaries of what’s possible.”
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One of those innovations is complex event processing, which is depicted in the above scenario. Mark Goodge, chief technology officer of the Military Health System, describes it as “taking the ‘eaches’ – each little thing that’s done individually – and linking them to create an ecosystem of information.”
This ecosystem enables providers, patients, and even the facility itself to respond to various conditions, said Goodge, who’s also division chief for HIT innovation and advanced technology.
“Some of this technology is already available,” said Andrew “Jake” Jacobs, the Defense Health Agency’s chief of strategy and planning for innovations and advanced technology development.
Linking it is the difficult part. A typical treatment facility has more than 20 information technology systems. They include business processes for admissions and billing; information flows, such as patients’ electronic health records; and data reporting and analytics to measure clinical procedures and patient outcomes.
“We’re working on the ability to combine data from a variety of sources to enable actionable decisions and create a cohesive view of what’s happening at any particular medical treatment facility,” Jacobs said.
HIT works with its business partners to turn their ideas for innovation into reality. Part of HIT’s role is to consider not only the impact of the innovation itself, but also any second-order effects. “It’s like dominoes,” Goodge said. “One action sparks a chain of events.”
Health information technology innovation is a particularly complex orchestration, Goodge said. “Think about it like ducks moving through water. On the surface, everything looks so smooth and easy, but down below, their feet are moving really fast.”
Last month, Goodge was awarded the InnovateIT Outstanding Achievement Award-DoD from the Bethesda, Maryland, chapter of the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association. He was honored for leveraging technology to help improve health care tools for MHS providers worldwide.
“We’re in a very data-driven environment today,” he said, “and it’s not going to slow down. We always need to push the boundaries of what’s possible.”
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