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The Madigan Army Medical Center in Tacoma, Wash., has completed a successful test of personal health record systems that allowed patients to access information contained in the Defense Department's AHLTA electronic health record system. Now the pilot project will be extended to the Navy National Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., and a civilian hospital system serving military patients in Virginia, Madigan officials told the annual Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society conference here this week.

YOKOSUKA NAVAL BASE, Japan - Most U.S. Navy medical personnel in the Pacific - military and civilian - will be banned from smoking or chewing tobacco anywhere during duty hours and while in uniform, in accordance with a recent Navy instruction.

As organizations throughout the U.S. work to help combat veterans, the Coalition for Iraq & Afghanistan Veterans decided to bring them all together so they could share knowledge about what they're doing and talk about what still needs to be done. CIAV is a clearinghouse of 50 agencies that seek to help veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. At the three-day conference, veterans like McGinnis talked about their experiences trying to access care after returning from deployment, family members talked about their own versions of "combat stress," and care specialists talked about what they had to offer as well as how the different organizations could team up.

Wilford Hall Medical Center will merge its inpatient services with Brooke Army Medical Center. A new outpatient clinic will replace it.

Fort Eustis and other Army bases will soon take steps to prevent suicides by tackling stress and depression.

Specially adapted homes are being built by Helping a Hero for our severely wounded heroes injured in theater during the War on Terror

Our beneficiaries have choices. Through health care transparency we are empowering our beneficiaries to see how the Military Health System truly compares to others. We expect they will be pleasantly surprised by the value we provide them.

Deployed airmen loses nearly half his weight during his six month deployment.

The U.S. military is rethinking its "golden hour" goal for critically injured troops, questioning whether it should spend a little longer evacuating patients to get them to a better hospital.