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The Department of Defense has successful deployed MHS GENESIS—its new Cerner electronic health record system—at Madigan Army Medical Center in Tacoma, Wash., as part of the EHR’s initial operating capability phase.
Madigan is the fourth, final and largest military facility in the Pacific Northwest to go live during the IOC phase using the Cerner Millennium commercial platform. Earlier this year, DoD completed the installation of the EHR at Fairchild Air Force Base, Naval Health Clinic Oak Harbor and Naval Hospital Bremerton.
David Norley, communications director for the Defense Healthcare Management Systems, says the initial implementations of MHS GENESIS have been successful.
With more than 100,000 DoD beneficiaries receiving care at the site, Madigan is the Army’s second largest medical hospital. Ultimately, the Pentagon plans on replacing the legacy Armed Forces Health Longitudinal Technology Application, Composite Health Care System, and Essentris inpatient system with Cerner’s EHR, which is slated for deployment worldwide to support healthcare delivery for 9.4 million DoD beneficiaries.
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