Joint Operational Medicine Information System

The Joint Operational Medicine Information System (JOMIS) is a program under the Defense Health Agency focused on modernizing, deploying, and sustaining the Department of Defense's operational medicine information systems. Its primary goal is to provide commanders and medical professionals with integrated, timely, and accurate information essential for making critical command and control as well as medical decisions. These systems are designed to function effectively even in constrained, intermittent, or non-existent communications environments while ensuring access to authoritative clinical data sources.

JOMIS addresses several technological and business challenges associated with operational medicine. These include outdated technology, inefficient design standards, reliance on obsolete code, and lack of automation. The program also aims to standardize deployment methods across services to improve user adoption and streamline acquisition processes. To tackle these challenges, JOMIS plans to translate the Theater Medical Information Requirement Information Systems Capabilities Development Document into a modern Portfolio Capability Roadmap that informs design practices through needs statements and user stories.

The program emphasizes constructing effective governance through external consultancy and resource investment into an Operational Medicine Functional Champion. This initiative aims to create a high-performing team that envisions future operational medicine capabilities integrated with DoD and federal medical data landscapes. Additionally, JOMIS intends to leverage experiential learning from current innovative projects to explore modern software delivery methods that align with the evolving operational medicine mission.

Planned activities for JOMIS include executing its Operational Medicine Capability Roadmap while developing new healthcare delivery capabilities such as MHS GENESIS-Theater and Theater Blood Management systems. The program will focus on system integration, testing activities, and conducting test planning for new interfaces and patches. By utilizing industry best practices like Agile development and continuous integration/delivery methods, JOMIS aims to enhance existing capabilities while delivering new ones prioritized by the operational medicine functional community.