Information Technology Development

Abstract

The Army Medical Command received PE 0605013 funding to identify, explore, and demonstrate key technologies to overcome medical and military unique technology barriers. Programs include Army service level support for the Medical Operational Data System (MODS); Army Medicine CIO Management Operations; Psychological and Behavioral Health – Tools for Evaluation, Risk, and Management (PBH-TERM); Pharmacovigilance Defense Application System (PVDAS); Mobile HealthCare Environment (MHCE); and the Defense Center of Excellence (DCoE). For the Air Force, the funding in this program element provides for sustainment of the IM/IT Test Bed (IMIT-TB) capability, which is a dedicated OT location and staff encompassing the entire spectrum of healthcare services and products available in MTFs, to provide risk controlled testing of designated core and interim medical applications in a live environment. Defense Health Agency (DHA) Health Information Technology (HIT) [previously known as Tri-Service IM/IT] - DHA HIT RDT&E activities includes funding for development/integration, modernization, test and evaluation for the Defense Health Agency initiatives, and any special interest that are shared within all centralized components of the Defense Health Program (DHP). HIT initiatives currently using RDT&E funding include: Defense Occupational and Environmental Health Readiness System – Industrial Hygiene (DOEHRS-IH) and Defense Center of Excellence (Telehealth and Technology Toolkit (T2T)). The DHP RDT&E appropriation includes the following DHA initiatives: Electronic Commerce System (E-Commerce). E-Commerce was developed for centralized collection, integration, and reporting of accurate purchased care contracting and financial data. It provides an integrated set of data reports from multiple data sources to management, as well as tools to control the end-to-end program change management process. E-Commerce is composed of several major applications including: Contract Management (CM), utilizing Prism software to support contract action development and documentation; Resource Management (RM), employing Oracle Federal Financials and TED interface software to support the budgeting, accounting, case recoupment, and disbursement processes; Document Management, utilizing Document software to provide electronic storage, management, and retrieval of contract files; Management Tracking and Reporting, utilizing custom software to provide reports to assist in the management and tracking of changes to the managed care contracts as well as current and out year liabilities; the Purchased Care and Contractor’s Resource Center web sites that provide up-to-date financial information for both TMA and the Services concerning the military treatment facilities (MTFs), and expenditures for MTF enrollee purchased care and supplemental care. E-Commerce includes an infrastructure of over 60 servers supporting development, test, and production. E-Commerce is employed by several hundred users in more than 7 different organizations. Project oversight and coordination must be provided to ensure that the needs of the disparate organizations are met without influencing system performance or support to any individual user. Server configurations must remain current with respect to security policies, user authorizations, and interactions with other systems and functions. All of these activities must be managed and coordinated on a daily basis.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2023
• Source ID: 0605013DHA_2_0130_PB_2023
• Service Agency Name: Defense Health Agency

Entities

Organizations

• Defense Health Agency

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Biometric Security
• Brain Injuries
• Commerce
• Department Of Defense
• Electronic Commerce
• Environmental Health
• Health Care
• Health Services
• Human Resources
• Information Systems
• Medical Personnel
• Military Medicine
• Mobile Application Software
• Resource Management
• Software Development
• Test And Evaluation
• Test Beds

Fields of Study

• Computer science

Readers

• Defense Financial Management and Audit.
• Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
• Medical or Health Care Field.

Technology Areas

• Microelectronics