The congress and the American People are making sure that we maintain our lead role in innovation. Todays budget, and this isnt a constrained environment, but we also have to continue to think of new ways to provide health care and research. Captain james lovell and chicago is the first of its kind for the partnership between the active military this was a rough marriage to bring together a manner of just blocks the great lakes hospital and the va hospital are destined to be closed. Its open and they merge together. The battles that we have fought between different cultures and active military versus the different unions, the different Computer Systems, i want to know if we have learned anything from that. During the course of this hearing. The Integrative Health record is long overdue and long overbudget. It is time for some questions to be asked about whether progress is being made. Finally the Budget Proposal is consolidating tricare as well as additional fees and copays especially
Assistant Director for Management
Barclay P. Butler, Ph.D., MBA, serves as the Assistant Director for Management (AD-M) for the Defense Health Agency (DHA) as a member of the Senior Executive Service (SES). As the AD-M, Butler is responsible for leading the DHA in matters pertaining to personnel, manpower, acquisition, contracting, program management, analytics, strategic planning, education and training, and research and development, serving the needs of primary, secondary, and tertiary care medical centers, hospitals, and ambulatory care clinics, within the Military Health System (MHS).
Prior to this assignment, Butler was the interim Assistant Director for Healthcare Administration (AD-HCA) for the DHA responsible for strategy and execution in supporting the delivery of care to the beneficiaries of the MHS through the DHA’s integrated system of readiness and health where he led the DHA in the domains of financial operations, medical affairs, health care operations, and inform