MIDAS (Medical Informatics Decision Assistance and Support)

The Defense Healthcare Management System Modernization (DHMSM) effort will bring about a new era in the Department?s implementation of Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) and advanced health care delivery approaches. The advent of EMRs has provided better access into the workings of health care systems, but has not necessarily empowered patients and practitioners with better decision making ability. Simply providing access to form-based records presents patients and doctors with limited understanding of past, current, and future conditions that can influence treatment plans or impact the effectiveness of the care provided. EMRs brings about three exciting opportunities for better health management: communication through mobile devices, dynamic treatment plans, and analytics. On mobile devices, the opportunity is provide two-way, real-time communication that can lead to better decisions, both by patients and practitioners. On treatment plans, the opportunity is the evaluation of status updates and clinical notes against digitized treatment plans instead of the current treatment plans buried in paper documents. On analytics, the harvesting of lessons learned from frequent user updates and evaluation in dynamic plans against expected objectives for the benefit of practitioners and patients. These opportunities represent the focus areas of Milcord?s Medical Informatics Decision Assistance and Support capability.