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Health Information Technology - SupportingJoint Readiness

Session # 104, March 7, 2018

Mr. T. Pat Flanders, DADIO/J-6, CIO

Kevin P. Seeley, Deputy CIO, Colonel, USAF, MSC

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Speaker Introduction“Pat” Flanders

Deputy Assistant Director Information Operations (DADIO)

and Chief Information Officer (CIO)

Defense Health Agency (DHA)

Mr. Flanders provides leadership for the continued development of an affordable, innovative, robust, and secure information technology environment in support of the Military Health System (MHS). Mr. Flanders is a computer scientist and Department of Defense (DoD) certified acquisition professional with 29 years of system automation, personnel, finance, and logistics experience.

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Speaker IntroductionKevin P. Seeley, Colonel, USAF, MSC

Deputy CIO (DADIO & J-6)

DHA

Leads the J-6 Combat Support Directorate responsible for cybersecurity, emerging technologies, data and infrastructure standardization, functional integration, health informatics, clinical/business applications to operate and maintain the Military Health System (MHS) mission for 699 Military Treatment Facilities (MTFs) worldwide. Colonel Seeley holds a Health Executive Leader certificate from the University of California, San Diego, is a member of the American College of Health Executives (ACHE), and is a Certified Professional with the Health Information & Management Systems Society (HIMSS).

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Conflict of Interest

Mr. T. Pat Flanders and Colonel Kevin Seeley have no real or apparent

conflicts of interest to report.

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Agenda

• DADIO/J-6 Organizational Overview

• Shift to Standardized Services

• Cybersecurity – Everyone’s Business

• Summary/Questions

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Learning Objectives

• Describe the important changes, direction, and benefits of the DHAIO/J-6 services

• Discuss how DADIO/J-6 ensures the right information is accessible to the right customers at the right time and in the right way

• Explain how DADIO/J-6 is facilitating partnerships amongst the Services, DHA, and Combatant Commands via the implementation and sustainment of an integrated and protected health IT environment

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Organizational Overview

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DADIO/ J-6

Our MissionImplement, manage, and sustain an integrated

and protected medical information enterprise to

ensure the right information is accessible to

the right customer at the right time and in the

right way

Our VisionA premier system of health IT,

enabling integrated healthcare

delivery for those who service in

the defense of our country

Standardizing and Optimizing IT as an Enterprise Support Activity

The DADIO Shared Services model organizes support and functions to

optimize delivery of reliable, flexible, and cost effective services to

customers

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Goals and Approaches

• Maintain accountability to Services’ Requirements

• Communicate effectively and transparently with all Stakeholders

• Increase awareness of DADIO’s value

Deliver Trusted IT Services

• Reward excellence and innovation

• Build skills and expertise

• Empower people to make decisions

• Foster inclusion and diversity

Invest in our People

• Standardize IT processes and service offerings

• Enable joint readiness across the MHS

• Collaborate on all projects

Optimize IT Operations

As-Is: Fragmented IT Urban Sprawl

Managing the Full-Spectrum Internet of Things (IoT) in Healthcare

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Shifting to Standardized Services

Portfolio Rationalization & Reform Model

MHS GENESIS

Strategic Integration:

Standardize/Consolidate

Desktop-to-Datacenter (D2D)

Reduce Variance –“One” Joint Health IT System

• “One Network” – identity & enterprise management, active directory

• “One Electronic Health Record (EHR)” – new single integrated EHR platform

• “One Email – everyone on same email system

• “One Datacenter – single datacenter hosting strategy

• “One Desktop” – standard secure baseline configuration/image

• “One Entry Point for Service” – unified help desk capability

• “One End user device (EUD) Refresh Service” – desktop, laptop

• “One AV/Comm” – single AV/communications strategy

• “One e-Learning” – single shared e-Learning platform

• “One analytics platform” – common clinical and business big data service

• Eventually – “One video tele-conference (VTC), virtual/telemedicine system, wireless (WiFi), voice over IP (VoiP), Medical Device strategy

Medical Community of Interest Network

To-Be: Joint Strategic Enabler

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EHR Modernization

• Inpatient•Artifacts

•Outpatient•ADT Backbone

CHCS AHLTA

EssentrisHAIMS

Current EHR Future EHR

2017

Initial Deployment

2022

Full Deployment

Transition Risk

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Data Modernization

• Master data management

• Data governance

• Legacy data

• Service oriented architecture

• Enterprise intelligence & data

solutions PMO

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Cybersecurity

Healthcare Cyber Attacks Everyone’s Issue

DHA Risk Management Framework (RMF)

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Summary

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Implementing National Defense Act 2017

• Future being constructed

– March 2018: Final report to Congress

– October 2018: Start implementation

• Assessing regional models

• CIO stood-up first Regional Information Office

– National Capital Region

– Identifying:

• Roles/Responsibilities

• Skill sets

• Required process and procedures

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Benefits • Consolidating and optimizing MHS infrastructure delivers a

single, secure, interoperable infrastructure for DoD

healthcare communications and IT operations

– Replaces duplicative Service Medical networks

– Reduces overall network maintenance costs

– Enables standardization of clinical/business processes

– Provides robust, secure and highly available service

– Improves access to healthcare information Promotes

effective, efficient health operations

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Questions• For additional questions, please contact us at

– dha.ncr.health-it.mbx.director-workflow@mail.mil

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