AFHSC operates the Defense Medical Surveillance System (DMSS), an executive information system whose database contains up-to-date and historical data on diseases and medical events (e.g., hospitalizations, ambulatory visits, reportable diseases, HIV tests, acute respiratory diseases, and health risk appraisals) and longitudinal data on personnel and deployments. AFHSC routinely publishes summaries of notifiable diseases, trends of illnesses of special surveillance interest and field reports describing outbreaks and case occurrences in the Medical Surveillance Monthly Report (MSMR), the principal vehicle for disseminating medical surveillance information of broad interest. Through DMSS, The Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center provides the sole link between the DoD Serum Repository and other databases. This repository contains over 50 million frozen serum specimens and is the largest of its kind in the world.
Online Data
Selected Data Tables Integrated within the Defense Medical Surveillance System*
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Notes
- Person / Demog contain all persons serving on active duty and in the reserve component
- Deployment roster for Persian Gulf War
- Deployment roster for major deployments since PGW
- Health assessment questionnaires administered before / after major deployments
- Mandatory to routine
- Casualty data on active duty deaths
- As outlined in the Tri-Service required list of reportable events
- Includes medical encounters for active duty, activated Reserves and National Guard
Acronyms
AFIP — Armed Forces Institute of Pathology
CHPPM — United States Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine
DEERS — Defense Enrollment Eligibility Reporting System
DMDC — Defense Manpower Data Center
EI / DS — Executive Information Decision Support
HRA — Health Risk Appraisals
MEPS — Military Entrance Processing Stations
MTF — Military Treatment Facility
WHS — Washington Headquarters Service