Since the initial launch of MHS GENESIS in 2017, the new electronic health record completed the final deployment within the United States in July 2023—reaching the 86% milestone for worldwide deployment.
U.S. Air Force Col. Christina Sheets, Program Manager for the Defense Healthcare Management System Modernization system, discussed MHS GENESIS during her session at the 2023 Defense Health Information Technology Symposium, August 8-10, in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Her presentation, titled “ MHS GENESIS: Lessons Learned from Deployment and Sustainment,” discussed the challenges and successes she and her team experienced rolling out the new Defense Health Agency electronic health record system.
“We were told in the beginning that this was impossible,” said Sheets. “But we did it.”