Courtesy Story | Defense Health Agency | 07.17.2025
Did you know that TRICARE beneficiaries can receive a variety of health care services via virtual health? These services take place through secure video calls, phone appointments, and other technology platforms. TRICARE virtual health coverage includes primary care, urgent care, mental health, and specialty services....
Story by Maria Christina Yager | Munson Army Health Center Public Affairs | 06.04.2025
FORT LEAVENWORTH, KS – Munson Army Health Center announced the recipients of the Civilian Employee of the Quarter award for the second quarter of Fiscal Year 2025. These awards recognize outstanding contributions to patient care, mission support, and the embodiment of the Defense Health Agency's core values....
Courtesy Story | Defense Health Agency | 04.01.2025
Did you know that TRICARE beneficiaries can receive a variety of healthcare services via virtual health? These services take place through secure video calls, phone appointments, and other technology platforms. TRICARE virtual health coverage includes primary care, urgent care, mental health, and specialty services....
Story by Robert Hammer | Defense Health Agency | 09.08.2023
The Defense Health Agency is utilizing virtual health tools like MHS Video Connect to create a digital-first, patient-centered health care delivery system,...
Story by Savannah Blackstock | Defense Health Agency | 11.04.2021
The MHS is rapidly expanding the number of facilities using MHS Video Connect, with all continental United States-based hospitals and clinics expected to have the capability by the end of 2021....
Story by Thomas Walsh | Defense Health Agency | 07.20.2021
The urgent demands of the pandemic forced the MHS to adjust quickly by building out new capabilities, implementing new customer-care techniques and launching massive new research efforts. As a result, new and rapidly developed health care procedures have kept warfighters on post, ships at sea, and military medical professionals on the front lines in the fight against the coronavirus....
Courtesy Story | Defense Health Agency | 03.22.2021
U.S. Army Maj. Daniel Yourk Military Health System COVID-19 Remote Patient Monitoring pilot and its potential to help transform how the MHS delivers care to beneficiaries....
Courtesy Story | Defense Health Agency | 03.18.2021
Digital health and the move to patient-centered care—both accelerated across the Military Health System throughout 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. We MHS providers must include these two now-essential care delivery elements in our plans during COVID-19 and post-pandemic. Whatever the future has in store, the best way to face it is by creating a care system—both individuals and......
