SAN ANTONIO -- An initiative to help improve communications and response times between healthcare providers from different branches of the military working in a joint medical environment was recently created by the U.S. Army Medical Information Technology Center at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston and the Military Health System Cyberinfrastructure Services.
The result of the joint effort is the Military Health System Joint Active Directory.
MCiS approached the technology center requesting this migration support. In the long term, this migration should definitely help the joint military healthcare process.
The MHS directed all clinical programs of record to migrate to the Joint Active Directory as part of this initiative, and some clinical organizations are also in the process of migrating some of their IT services to the MHS JAD as well.
One of these migration efforts began over two years ago when USAMITC was tasked to support the newly created Joint Task Force National Capital Region Medical in the Washington, D.C., area.
This task involved a Base Realignment and Closure initiative to consolidate some of the medical facilities in the North Capital Region, including the former Walter Reed Army Medical Center, the Fort Belvoir Community Hospital and the former National Naval Medical Center at Bethesda.
This initiative specifically required the closure of WRAMC and the distribution of its employees and IT services to the other two medical treatment facilities.
These hospitals, the FBCH and the newly-named Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, now fall under Joint Task Force National Capital Region Medical.
“The tasking was two-fold,” said Joe Tolentino, a project manager in USAMITC’s Sustainment Division and the Military Health System Joint Active Directory Team Lead. “The first immediate task was to get Fort Belvoir migrated by the end of August 2011.”
Tolentino said that this migration was different.
“This was an active directory migration project requiring email, BlackBerry, and email archiving services, as well as the requirement to migrate workstations.”
Tolentino said that from USAMITC’s perspective, the real focus was to migrate customers from one active directory system to the Military Health System Joint Active Directory.
“The challenge is we have three different types of customers: Army, Navy, and a smattering of Air Force; so we’re talking about a real tri-service initiative,” Tolentino said.
“While USAMITC has performed similar migration efforts within the Army Medical Command community, this tri-service requirement was something new and different.”
Tolentino shed more light on their challenges.
“The tasking we received to meet the BRAC legal requirement of completion by mid-September of last year was very aggressive and demanding. We had only a few months to prepare for that migration. The team did a great job meeting the challenge.”
This migration also included the Dilorenzo TRICARE Health Clinic at the Pentagon, a smaller site that falls under Walter Reed.
“Due to their visibility and mission of supporting senior level executives at the Pentagon, this site required a lot of attention as well,” Tolentino said.
| Date Taken: | 09.06.2012 |
| Date Posted: | 09.10.2012 14:23 |
| Story ID: | 94461 |
| Location: | SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, US |
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