Senators are delving into the question of whether the military establishment is prepared to handle mass combat casualties. Shown here, Idaho National Guard members conduct medevac training in 2022.

The Defense Health Agency has a new mission statement that its director says is more appropriate for a medical system that serves family members, retirees and their families in addition to active-duty ...

Funding shortages and Tricare contract problems continue to plague the military health care system, senior enlisted leaders testified before the House Appropriations Committee in Washington, D.C., on ...

Christopher Syrek, chief of staff of the Department of Veterans Affairs, informed his senior colleagues on March 4 of a Department of Governmental Efficiency-devised plan for large-scale cutbacks at ...

On March 11, 2024, President Joseph R. Biden submitted his Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 budget request to Congress. Discretionary funding in the Department of Defense (DOD) budget request totals $849.8 ...

The Pentagon's top doctor pledged Monday to defend the military health system's $61 billion budget but said more could be done to balance resources and improve medical care. Dr. Steve Ferrara, the ...

The Department of Defense plans to decommission the online portal patients use to access old military health information and recommends patients download their digital medical records if they want to ...

FALLS CHURCH, Virginia – One of George Washington’s many wise aphorisms, “To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace,” is timeless. Teddy Roosevelt updated the maxim ...

The Military Health System plans to implement McKesson’s InterQual solution, a clinical decision support tool, at its military treatment facilities. InterQual aggregates current, evidence-based ...

The online military medical records system, MHS Genesis, was experiencing “intermittent network outages” Tuesday, according to the Defense Health Agency. Without Genesis, patients in the military ...

YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan — Human error caused an outage that brought Military Health System Genesis — the freshly installed online system at U.S. health care ...

When it comes to combat casualty care, "without urgent intervention, the Military Health System will continue to slide into ...