GDF-Medical Products Support and Advanced Concept Development
Abstract
Guidance for Development of the Force (GDF)-Medical Products Support and Advanced Concept Development: Advanced development efforts are intended to support clinical trials of promising technologies that may provide solutions for the most pressing medical needs of the Warfighter, acceleration of the transition of those technologies to the operators in the field, and promulgation of new, evidence-based approaches to the practice of medicine as clinical practice guidelines. Research will be conducted in four specific areas: trials for accelerated transition of modeling and simulation technology for medical training/education/treatment; trials for accelerated transition of medical technology, practice guidelines, and standards; advanced component development of medical products; and medical information technology development. Within the research areas of health informatics, research efforts will include force health protection and readiness, medical resourcing, healthcare services, and enterprise information management. Future efforts will provide long term efficiencies by defining processes to grow and improve the electronic healthcare record and other medical related systems, and to implement new trends and advancements in technology. The efforts will help improve healthcare access, availability, continuity, cost effectiveness, and quality. Initial candidates will be selected from those funded by other medical research sponsors in the Department, and from external sources such as academia and industry, including efforts funded with prior year Congressional special interest funding. Research supported by this program element includes medical simulation and training, health informatics, advanced development of rapid pathogen detection in fresh whole blood, field assessment of intervention tools for PTSD, and clinical trials on biomarkers for TBI and spinal cord injury, combat casualty care advanced product development and rehabilitative medicine clinical trials.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2014
- Source ID
- 374A_0604110HP_2_0130_PB_2014