The Military Health System Blog
Thursday, February 04, 2010 - Human Capital Wants Your Ideas
Posted by: Maureen O. Viall
Have a great idea related to human capital? During my presentation at the MHS Conference, “Human Capital: Achieving Greatness in a Mission-Focused Organization,” I introduced our new e-mail box as a means to communicate your great ideas or issues with us in the Chief Human Capital Office.
Human capital is a broad profession that considers all types of topics related to employment, such as recruiting, onboarding, training and education, leadership, compensation, employee relations, labor relations, organizational development, technology, work/life programs, safety, diversity, and legal compliance.
If you have a great idea in one of these areas, or if you know about a best practice, we’d love to hear about it. Send a note to us (Military Health System Office of Human Capital) at humancapitalofficeideas@tma.osd.mil. We monitor this e-mail box and will consider each idea sent to us. We’ll discuss the issue with the needed stakeholders and get back to you with a solution/update. |
Posted at 2010-02-04 08:04:38 in Human Capital | Permalink | Comments 
Thursday, February 04, 2010 - From the Desk of the ASD/HA
Posted by: Allen W. Middleton
The following message from Allen Middleton, who is performing the duties of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs, was sent to DoD Health Affairs and TMA staff yesterday.
To the Health Affairs / TRICARE Management Activity Team,
I'm honored today to be representing our combined organization, Performing the Duties of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs and serving as the Acting Director of TMA.
The titles rightly indicate that my tenure in this role may be limited, but my responsibilities...our responsibilities...are not. The missions and obligations of our organization and that of Military Health System are permanent.
Combat activities, terrorist incidents and earthquakes don't wait for anyone.
For almost nine years, our military -- our colleagues, friends and families, and our own staff -- have been personally engaged in combat and humanitarian operations.
We will have almost 70,000 troops in Afghanistan by the end of this year, well over 100,000 in Iraq; and U.S. military forces in more than 150 countries around the world.
Over 20,000 are supporting relief efforts in Haiti...to include the USNS Comfort that arrived in Haitian waters and immediately began around-the-clock surgery, as well as other medical assets from across the Joint MHS team.
The performance of our medical personnel throughout this period has been both exceptional and groundbreaking. Our support to the full range of military beneficiaries and all their medical needs back home remains vital.
I recognize that during leadership transition periods, many of us are naturally curious about who might step into any number of positions and what changes may lie ahead. But that interest cannot translate into paralysis or inaction. Our paramount obligation is to remain focused on our core mission.
In the coming weeks and months, I will be communicating with all of you frequently on what is happening from my vantage point.
Together with the Service and Joint Staff medical leadership, we will build on the common purposes that were articulated at the MHS Leadership Conference last week.
Thank you for what you are doing for our Nation every day. |
Posted at 2010-02-04 14:11:09 in Announcements | Permalink | Comments
Thursday, February 04, 2010 - Dot Mil Docs on NHIN
Posted by: Health.mil Staff
Episode 96 of the MHS podcast Dot Mil Docs is available now.
In this episode, Lt. Cmdr. Steve Steffensen, chief medical information officer of the Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC), and Virtual Lifetime Electronic Record (VLER) coordinator, discusses the Nationwide Health Information Network and its importance to the MHS.
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Posted at 2010-02-04 15:49:20 in Dot Mil Docs | Permalink | Comments
Wednesday, February 03, 2010 - Help Us Tweak the New Health.mil
Posted by: Health.mil Staff
 In case you hadn’t heard, we’re updating Health.mil with a new look and feel. Our official switch to the new site is just around the corner but we’re letting you take an early look at the new site so that you can help us fine-tune it.
The new health.mil is currently available at beta.health.mil. Please visit the site, take a look around, and then please fill out a short questionnaire linked from beta.health.mil’s homepage that will help us make the site work better for you.
Tell us what you like, what you don’t like, what’s missing, etc…
But please remember that the new health.mil is a work in progress, so some features or sections might not be complete.
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Posted at 2010-02-03 09:55:26 in Health.mil | Permalink | Comments
Monday, February 01, 2010 - USU Announces New Brigade Commander
Posted by: Charles L. Rice, M.D.
I am very pleased to announce the selection of Captain Tanis Batsel Stewart, MC, USN, as the University’s next Brigade Commander. She will officially assume the duties this spring.
 Captain Batsel Stewart currently serves as the Director, Emergency Preparedness and Contingency Support, Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (BUMED), in Washington, D.C., where she is responsible for implementing a coordinated, comprehensive strategy to guide Navy Medicine’s emergency management and public health emergency preparedness and response efforts. She is also responsible for sourcing Navy medical personnel in support of contingency operations, humanitarian assistance, and disaster response efforts worldwide, including the Haitian earthquake.
Captain Batsel-Stewart is a former Navy line officer, and is a graduate of USU’s medical and graduate degree programs, having earned her M.D. in 1993 and her MPH in 2000. She is board certified in General Preventive Medicine and Public Health. She holds a certificate in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene from USU, and a master’s certificate in Homeland Defense from the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. Her career spans operational, research, policy development, and leadership assignments, including Senior Medical Officer, Regional Support Group, Mayport, Florida; Surface Warfare Medical Department Officer, USS Spruance (DD-963); Global Emerging Infections Surveillance and Response System Program Coordinator for South America while attached to the Naval Medical Research Center Detachment, Lima, Peru; Chief of Preventive Medicine, and deputy for the Joint Pandemic Influenza Team, USNORTHCOM, Peterson AFB, Colorado; and Head of Preventive Medicine Policy and Programs, Chief of Force Protection and Force Health Protection, and her current assignment at BUMED.
Captain Batsel Stewart will succeed Colonel Jack Wempe as Brigade Commander. Colonel Wempe will be transferring to his new assignment at the DoD Medical Examination Review Board in Colorado. His leadership, vision and dedication to the Brigade and to this university have been outstanding and he will be greatly missed.
A change of command ceremony will be held in late February.
Charles L. Rice, M.D.
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Posted at 2010-02-01 08:59:02 in Announcements | Permalink | Comments
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