Defense Health Agency CIO: grappling with similar challenges, but extra complexity

Healthcare IT News: At HIMSS19 on Tuesday, Pat Flanders, chief information officer of the Defense Health Agency, described the unique challenges of standardizing, modernizing and securing the sprawling and dizzyingly complex DHA.

It's not just the size, scope and critical mission of the DHA – which supports the Military Health System in information and technology integration to deliver its own unique Quadruple Aim: increased readiness, better health, better care and lower cost – that make his job so important. It's the huge number of patients in the system: 19,721 inpatient admissions per week, Flanders said.

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