HEALTHCARE INDUSTRY NEWS – continued Fort Hood lacked system to identify threat of 2014 rampage


The Army's tools for identifying troubled soldiers would not have flagged Spc. Ivan Lopez who shot to death three people and wounded 16 others at Fort Hood last year. While officials found no single factor that prompted Lopez to go on a shooting rampage April 2, the Army's investigation found instances where he faced "significant and increasing stress in the days, weeks, and months leading up to the shooting."


Army officials also would have had difficulty recognizing any personal problems leading up to the attack because risk assessment relies on self-reporting. But it also highlighted gaps in information sharing, noting that Lopez’s supervisors in some cases thought federal medical privacy laws prevented them from obtaining information to which they should have had access.


After the 2009 Fort Hood massacre, the Army made 78 recommendations for the base to improve its ability to identify the potential risk of violent behavior. In Friday's report, the Army acknowledged it did not implement — better sharing of soldiers' health history — because of constraints on exchanging information between military and civilian behavioral health care providers.


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