U'S' ARMY MEDICAL RESEARCH

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U.S. ARMY MEDICAL RESEARCH MATERIEL COMMAND
MG Lester Martinez-Lopez,
Commanding
Telemedicine Advanced Technology Research
Center Cutting Edge Medical Technology
Mobile Medical Technologies
Deputy, Advanced Technologies Colonel (Dr)
Jeffrey Roller, MC, USAF, Director, Tommy
Morris, Director Mobile Computing, Chief
Information Technology Officer, Telemedicine
Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC)

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Mobile Computing
The overall aim of the Program is to identify and
develop point-of-care/point-of-use medical
technologies and support architectures to improve
military health care by enabling more effective
medical decision-making and helping reduce errors
at the point-of-care. Specifically, TATRC is
interested in applying wireless information
technologies to medical informatics and
telemedicine applications at the point of care
and rearward To identify key RD initiatives in
mobile medical technologies and apply those
technologies to support our soldiers, sailors and
airmen Help in aligning mobile medical
technologies to the broader Department of Defense
healthcare system Serve as a tool for future
investment and road mapping of research and
development of mobile medical technologies
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Why Mobile Computing? Original Business Problems
1944-2004

• Inadequate Integration of Occupational
  Environmental Health exposure data
• Inadequate Information, Acquisition, Retention
  beginning at first responder level
• Force Health Protection
• Disease surveillance
• Inadequate Automated Interfaces With DOD Systems
• Inadequate sustainment training of first
  responders
• Constraints on Medical Logistics support to first
  responders
• Rapidly Changing DoD Missions
• Requirements vary with mission
• Homeland Security
• OOTW
• Urban Warfare
• Similar systems too large/cumbersome and/or
  expensive

Medical environment that become more tenuous over
time
Right technology to right person at the right
time
Customers
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Objectives

• To optimize Patient care
• To maximize the amount of medical data available
  for medical health surveillance
• To improve military health care by improving
  medical decision making and reducing errors
  beginning at the first responder level
• To increase responsiveness to medical situations
• Interoperability and Scalability across the
  Enterprise

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Research Investments
Sensor Gloves
Laser Retinal Display
Speech capable PDA
Wireless Electronic Information Carriers
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Emerging Research Areas
Integrated Health Surveillance System for
Casualty Prevention Linked to TMIP/MC4 Provides
Health Surveillance capability to Level III and
below
Force Protection Modules Preventive
Medicine Veterinary Services Blood
Management Environmental Laboratory Combat
Operational Stress Control Preventive
Dentistry Nutrition Care
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Patient-Centric Infosphere

• Provides
• More effective medical care
• Better medical information
• Heightened Vigilance for Public Health Threats
• Bioterrorism preparedness

Healthcare Delivery
Enhanced Quality
Longitudinal Record
Surveillance
Electronic Information Carrier
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Business Process Innovation
The U.S. Armys Telemedicine and Advanced
Technology Research Center developed a
point-of-care solution for Army medics and first
responders.

• The HP difference
• iPAQ Pocket PC
• Software integration

Business needs
Results
Solution

• Enabled first responders to store, retrieve and
  transmit vital medical information at the point
  of care
• Provided on-the-spot diagnosis and treatment
  decision support
• Supplied injured service members with complete
  healthcare documentation
• Dramatically reduced paperwork requirements
• Enabled real-time health surveillance studies

• Support rapid deployment of combat-ready U.S.
  troops
• Provide medics with information needed to improve
  treatment of soldiers on the battlefield
• Comply with congressional mandate to upgrade
  medical documentation procedures

• HP iPAQ Pocket PC
• Battlefield Medical Information System Tactical
  (BMIST) software
• Microsoft Windows Mobile software
• Itanium 2-based servers

Keep Line of Sight with the users
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Contact
Mr Tommy Morris, Director Mobile Computing,
CITO Tele 301-619-2072 E-mail morris_at_tatrc.org
www.tatrc.org