{"id":8459,"date":"2013-12-01T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-01T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/business.cornell.edu\/centers\/2013\/12\/01\/david-m-bowen-mba-77\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T18:18:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T18:18:07","slug":"david-m-bowen-mba-77","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/business.cornell.edu\/centers\/2013\/12\/01\/david-m-bowen-mba-77\/","title":{"rendered":"David M. Bowen, MBA \u201977"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Bringing more intelligent healthcare to the U.S. military<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/business.cornell.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/06\/David-Bowen.jpg\" alt=\"David M. Bowen, MBA \u201977\" class=\"wp-image-8460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/business.cornell.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/06\/David-Bowen.jpg 320w, https:\/\/business.cornell.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/06\/David-Bowen-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/business.cornell.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/06\/David-Bowen-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br \/>Consolidate, cut costs, and upgrade: Since being named Chief Information Officer(CIO) for the Department of Defense Military Health System(MHS) last September, David Bowen has been called to do all three at the same time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The most daunting mission of the past year, Bowen says, has been preparing for the launch of the government&#8217;s new Defense Health Agency. For years, the Army, Navy, and Air Force administered medical and administrative processes separately; but in the late 2012, in an effort to cut costs and increase efficiency, Congress mandated that all three branches&#8217; systems be combined into a single shared system. Managing such a transition, Bowen says, &#8220;has been less a technology challenge than a change-management challenge. Or, put another way, an exercise in anthropology.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Simultaneous to planning this overhaul, Bowen has been fighting to improve the methods by which private-sector healthcare facilities that treat military patients share patient data with the MHS &#8211; and to significantly upgrade the information(IT) used by the MHS. For a long time, Bowen says, the military&#8217;s IT outpaced that of its commercial counterpoints. Today, though, the opposite is true. Because the military&#8217;s IT has taken the form of custom &#8220;homegrown systems&#8221;, up to 95 percent of the IT budget goes to maintenance, while less than 5 percent goes to technological enhancements. To help bring government systems up to speed, Bowen says, the MHS will soon be reaching out to the commercial market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Working for the MHS, a network that serves more than 9.6 million active-duty and retired military and their families, Bowen says, has been &#8220;a nice way to cap off a healthcare IT career&#8221; in that the job brings to bear both his long experience as a private-sector healthcare information officer and his previous experience working with government bureaucracies as CIO at the Federal Aviation Administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I just love it here&#8221;, he says. &#8220;Never before have I worked with such a uniformly high high-caliber group of people. 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