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The MHS has a $50+ billion budget and serves approximately 9.5 million beneficiaries. The actual cost of having a government-run health care system for the military is higher because the wages and benefits paid for military personnel who work for the MHS and the retirees who formerly worked for it, is not included in the budget.
The Defense Health Agency (DHA) is a joint, integrated combat support agency that enables the U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, and U.S. Air Force medical services to provide a medically ready force and ready medical force to Combatant Commands in both peacetime and wartime. The DHA is in charge of integrating clinical and business operations across the ...
Frank Kendall III (born January 26, 1949) is an American engineer, lawyer and executive who is the 26th and current United States Secretary of the Air Force. He has served in several senior positions in the U.S. Department of Defense. [1] A West Point graduate (Class of 1971, Distinguished Graduate), [2] he retired as a lieutenant colonel from ...
Armed Forces Health Longitudinal Technology Application. AHLTA is a global Electronic Health Record (EHR) system used by U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). It was implemented at Army, Navy and Air Force Military Treatment Facilities (MTF) around the world between January 2003 and January 2006. It is a services-wide medical and dental information ...
Tricare (styled TRICARE) is a health care program of the United States Department of Defense Military Health System. [1] Tricare provides civilian health benefits for U.S Armed Forces military personnel, military retirees, and their dependents, including some members of the Reserve Component. Tricare is the civilian care component of the ...
The Millennium Cohort Study is an ongoing longitudinal cohort study headquartered at the Naval Health Research Center in San Diego, California and designed to evaluate any long-term health effects of military service, including deployments. [1] It is the largest population-based prospective health project in US military history, [2] [3] [4 ...
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU) is a health science university and professional school of the U.S. federal government.The primary mission of the school is to prepare graduates for service to the U.S. at home and abroad as uniformed health professionals, scientists and leaders; by conducting cutting-edge, military-relevant research; by leading the Military Health ...
The collaboration between BAMC and local Air Force Medical assets are governed by the San Antonio Military Health System (SAMHS). Timeline. 1870 to 1875 - City of San Antonio donates 92 acres (370,000 m 2) for an Army post; 1879 - temporary wooden (board and batten, not log) 12-bed hospital built
On July 16, 2021, San Antonio's military treatment facilities officially unified as a Market with the Defense Health Agency during a ceremony at Brooke Army Medical Center. The San Antonio Market was charged with optimizing personnel and resources and improving access to care for more than 250,000 military beneficiaries across the region. [1]
The Composite Health Care System (CHCS) is a medical informatics system designed by Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) and used by all United States and OCONUS military health care centers. In 1988, SAIC won a competition for the original $1.02 billion contract to design, develop, and implement CHCS. [1]