It turns out there is an ‘I’ in team, especially when it concerns the combined efforts of information management (IM) teams from Naval Hospital Bremerton (NHB) and Naval Hospital Oak Harbor (NHOH).
NHB and NHOH IM teams were recognized in a joint nomination package with the 2015 Captain Joan Dooling Award for Information Professional Excellence for their significant accomplishments, innovation and technological leadership. The acknowledgement centered on the ongoing preparation taking place at both commands to rollout the new Department of Defense electronic health record known as MHS GENESIS.
“It was great to be recognized for the significant contribution NHB has made leading up to the deployment of MHS GENESIS,” said Mr. Patrick Flaherty, Naval Hospital Bremerton information management department (IMD) head and chief information officer, who accepted the award on behalf of NHB at the Defense Health Information Technology Symposium held Aug. 1-5, in Orlando, Florida.
NHB and NHOH were noted by Navy Medicine West leadership with cultivating a ‘one team’ atmosphere by combining efforts with diverse teams of multiple contractors, civilians and team leaders from the Defense Health Agency (DHA) to become the first sites within the Military Health System (MHS) to fully implement the DHA directory services and enterprise management (DS/EM) infrastructure. The DHA DS/EM capability enabled the delivery of desktop as a solution (DAAS) to NHB and NHOH that will be used for MHS GENESIS.
Both NHB and NHOH teams meticulously worked through a host of network, security, policy, implementation and configuration issues associated with being the first hospital sites within military medicine to transfer to the new structural design necessary to support implementation of MHS GENESIS.
“This truly has been a team effort. Highlighting individual contributions is difficult as the entire department pulled together to make things work. Three individuals made significant contributions: Lt. j.g. Nicole Willis, Information System Technician 1st Class Brian Bennett, and Ms. Brooke Noland. They each coordinated major efforts between the Defense Health Agency teams and IMD. Their efforts directly contributed to Naval Hospital Bremerton leading the DHA transformation in the Pacific Northwest,” said Flaherty.
According to Flaherty, with NHB being one of the inaugural Navy sites to participate in the DHA Medical Joint Active Directory (mJAD), a host of issues needed to be overcome, with the first responsibility to get all the teams within the DHA to come together.
“These teams were tasked with both supporting existing Army and Navy sites as well as participating in the mJAD development effort. Coordinating and testing changes with multiple teams in multiple time zones touching both server and network domains required patience and persistence. Ms. Brooke Noland made significant contributions with the help of Lt. Adam Sharrits to get everyone on the same page. Addressing the communication problem propelled NHB to the front of the Pacific Northwest transition effort,” shared Flaherty.
The Navy Medicine West summary of action report on the work of the teams noted that NHB and NHOH have established themselves as the ‘go-to’ site experts and are now being sought out on a consistent basis by other Navy, Army, Air Force military treatment facilities for guidance on the electronic health record transition, which will change the future of information technology services delivery.
Flaherty notes that there are really two efforts taking place simultaneously.
“The first falls to IMD and the multitude of DHA teams preparing the infrastructure to receive MHS GENESIS. This transition was mandated when the DHA was stood up and is part of the health IT shared service. The second effort is being led by Cmdr. Rolf Schmidt, NHB’s chief medical informatics officer. Schmidt, along with his team and the Navy Medicine MHS GENESIS support detachment headed by Capt. David Hardy, are coordinating the multitude of details required to configure and deploy the MHS GENESIS. This is a monumental effort as the Military Health care System will be replacing over 20 years of technology,” explained Flaherty.
| Date Taken: | 08.05.2016 |
| Date Posted: | 08.12.2016 12:55 |
| Story ID: | 206940 |
| Location: | BREMERTON, WASHINGTON, US |
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