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Virtual Education Center: Advancing Digital-First Health Care for Patients
The team overseeing the rollout of the Defense Health Agency’s new Virtual Education Center want to empower patients and give them the tools they need to make decisions in their own health care.
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Sitting in front of a computer for hours can make your eyes tired, and your visual performance can suffer.
Air Force Capt. Deann Hoelscher (right), 455th Expeditionary Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron Critical Care Air Transport Team physician deployed from the 60th Medical Group at Travis Air Force Base, California, and U.S. Capt. Jason Frias, 455th EAES CCATT critical care nurse, also deployed from the 60th Medical Group at Travis AFB, ensure a patient is properly secured prior to an aeromedical evacuation mission aboard a C-17 Globemaster III aircraft from Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, to Ramstein Air Base, Germany. (U.S. Air Force photo by Maj. Tony Wickman)
Private Jeanette Lee of the Army Reserve’s 244th Aviation Brigade undergoes vision screening during a mass medical-readiness event hosted by the Army Reserve’s 99th Regional Support Command at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey. More than 300 Army Reserve and Army National Guard Soldiers had the opportunity to take care of their Periodic Health Assessments, dental exams, vision screenings, HIV blood draws, immunizations, hearing tests and temporary or permanent profiles during the event. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Salvatore Ottaviano)
Dr. David Smith, deputy assistant secretary of Defense for Health Readiness Policy and Oversight, addresses attendees of the MHS Research Symposium in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Smith said the knowledge learned at the conference will pay dividends for military medical research for years to come.
Crewmembers of the hospital ship USNS Mercy train to participate in a mass casualty drill during Pacific Partnership 2015 recently. The current stop in Vietnam will culminate in a disaster medicine drill where both U.S. and Vietnamese medical personnel will participate both on and off USNS Mercy. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class William McCann)
Army Sgt. Jonathan Reiff, team leader attached to the Laghman Provincial Reconstruction Team in Afghanistan, lifts his 80-pound ruck sack as he prepares to leave for a multiple day mission.
Air Force medical personnel check for puncture wounds on a simulated head wound victim during a training exercise.
New tourniquets are credited with saving between 1,500 and 2,000 military personnel during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
A Navy doctor and Corpsmen treat a soldier in a medical exercise.
Deployment and other military-related separations can be tough on families, but many families can (and do) learn how to adapt to them.
U.S. Airmen assigned to the 455th Expeditionary Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron provide in flight medical care to injured service members on a C-17 Globemaster III aircraft that departed Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan, heading for medical care in Germany.
Navy Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class Edrik Nillo, prepares blood for medical procedures aboard the hospital ship USNS Mercy on its way to Papua New Guinea during Pacific Partnership 2015.
After a recent attack on a U.S. military installation in Kabul, Afghanistan, left service members injured, getting them from the battlefield to higher-level care was a task assigned to military healthcare.
Marine Lance Cpl. Fred Hass (left) and Lance Cpl. Clinton Turman (right), both with the Ground Combat Element, Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force-Crisis Response-Central Command, treat a patient during the final test of the Combat Life Savercourse.
DHA military leaders and health information technology personnel convene for the second annual Defense Health Information Technology Symposium in Orlando, Florida, to discuss strategies to modernize the Military Health System.
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