text: Army Health System Overview
  Table 1-2. Sample eligibility for medical and dental care support matrix
  ELIGIBILITY FOR MEDICAL AND DENTAL CARE
  SUPPORT MATRIX
  (DATE)
  (THIS DOCUMENT IS SUBJECT TO FURTHER VERIFICATION AND AND/OR MODIFICATION)
  Category Medical/dental Information/authority*
  The following nations have acquisition and cross-
  servicing agreements and multinational force com-
  Multinational military personnel Yes1 patibility agreements with the U.S. which are
  administered by (combatant command): List
  nations.
  Department of Defense Civilian
  Yes Invitational travel order.
  employees
  U.S. Government employees
  Yes2 Invitational travel order.
  (non-Department of Defense)
  U.S. Embassy personnel Yes U.S. citizens on official business.
  U.S. Congressional personnel Yes U.S. citizens on official business.
  Army and Air Force Exchange
  Yes Invitational travel order.
  Service U.S. citizen employees
  Army and Air Force Exchange
  Service Yes3 U.S. law.
  Local national employees
  Nonappropriated fund
  instrumentality morale, welfare, Yes Invitational travel orders.
  and recreation U.S. employees
  Contracted college instructors Yes Invitational travel orders.
  United Nations personnel
  (includes all personnel employed
  by the United Nations and its
  Yes3 U.S. law.
  agencies, such as the United
  Nations High Commissioner for
  Refugees)
  HEALTH INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
  1-54. Information management in support of both Army and Joint health services includes the ability to
  identify, capture, organize, disseminate, and synthesize required operational health and medical force
  information in support of a commander’s plans, operations, and sustainment activities within the OA.
  Deploying units are required to begin using Joint Operational Medicine Information Systems (JOMIS) and
  other available medical information systems within 24 hours of the unit’s initial operating capability.
  Information systems deployed in the operational environment are required to adopt and use data exchange
  standards that are appropriate to, and facilitate interoperability with systems that are used in that domain.
  1-55. There are two critical success factor to ensure units are utilizing their assigned systems with 24 hours
  of initial operating capability. The first is to introduce health information technology planning, to include
  network design, into the early stages of the military decision making process following receipt of an OPORD.
  The second is ensuring collaboration among primary staff section leaders and that the S6/Health Information
  Systems Officer is working with, and guiding, the chief of clinical operations, medical logistics, patient
  administration and operations as it relates to health information technology and communications.