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Military Health Care: DOD and VA Could Benefit from More Information on Staff Use of Military Toxic Exposure Records

GAO-24-106423
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Department of Defense The Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs should ensure that the Deployment Health Work Group establishes goals with performance measures on the extent of ILER use by types of staff and purpose within DOD and VA (Recommendation 1).
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Department of Defense The Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs should ensure that the Deployment Health Work Group or other relevant entities, such as the ILER Steering Group, use the data collected for the goals' performance measures to inform management decisions, including outreach, training, or other efforts that support the appropriate use of ILER (Recommendation 2).
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Military Justice: Increased Oversight, Data Collection, and Analysis Could Aid Assessment of Racial Disparities

GAO-24-106386
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Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should ensure that a department-level office is designated to coordinate with the military departments to comprehensively assess the military justice and discipline process to identify all areas where racial and ethnic disparities may exist, including in the selection of court-martial panels and sentencing, and the corresponding analyses to be conducted. (Recommendation 6)
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Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should ensure the department-level office designated to oversee coordination of the military departments' racial disparity assessments coordinates with the military departments to establish standard terminology and reporting categories, analyses, and reporting format and content to be used in future assessments of racial disparities in military justice and discipline processes. (Recommendation 5)
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Military Justice: Increased Oversight, Data Collection, and Analysis Could Aid Assessment of Racial Disparities

GAO-24-106386
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Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should ensure the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness designates a department-level office as the oversight entity responsible for coordinating the military departments' assessments of racial and ethnic disparities in military justice and discipline processes. (Recommendation 4)
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Veterans Affairs: Actions Needed to Improve Access to Care in the U.S. Territories and Freely Associated States

GAO-24-106364
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Department of Defense The Secretary of DOD should ensure that the Directors of the Defense Health Networks Indo-Pacific and Pacific Rim, in collaboration with VA, identify and implement additional opportunities to share resources and solutions to address shared challenges affecting the implementation of their resource sharing agreements in the Pacific. (Recommendation 6)
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Military Justice: Actions Needed to Help Ensure Success of Judge Advocate Career Reforms

GAO-24-106165
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Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should ensure that the Secretaries of the Military Departments collaborate to develop a standardized suite of performance measures that measure the effectiveness of the military justice career path in achieving desired outcomes. (Recommendation 34)
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Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should ensure that the Secretaries of the Military Departments collaborate to develop and implement an evaluation plan that employs performance measures to systematically evaluate the extent of the effectiveness of the military justice career paths and consider including such information in their annual Article 146a judge advocate workforce reports to Congress. (Recommendation 35)
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Electronic Health Records: DOD Has Deployed New System but Challenges Remain

GAO-24-106187
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Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should direct the Federal EHR Modernization Office to identify and address specific barriers to maximizing integration at the FHCC, consistent with the FHCC executive agreement. (Recommendation 1)
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Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should direct the Defense Health Agency Health Informatics organization in conjunction with the Program Executive Officer of Defense Healthcare Management Systems to establish MHS GENESIS user satisfaction targets (i.e., goals) and ensure that the system demonstrates improvement toward meeting those targets. (Recommendation 2)
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