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 transition of modeling and simulation technology for medical training/education/treatment; trials for transition of medical technology, practice guidelines, and standards; advanced component development of medical products; and medical information technology development. Within the areas of medical simulation and training the research areas concentrate in Combat Casualty Training Initiative (CCTI), Medical Practice Initiative (MPI), Health Focus Initiative (HFI), and Tools for Medical Education Initiative (TMEI). 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. Within military infectious diseases, research efforts include advanced development of rapid pathogen (infectious agent) detection in fresh whole blood, wound infection prevention and management, antimicrobial countermeasures, and diagnostic systems for infectious diseases. Within operational medicine, advanced development efforts include field assessment of intervention tools for post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), nutrition and dietary supplements, advancement of the physiologic status monitor, pharmaceuticals for the treatment of PTSD, development of military family and community health and resilience diagnoses and treatment, and validation trials for enhanced suicide prevention. For combat casualty care advanced product development, efforts include clinical trials on biomarkers (biological indicators) for traumatic brain injury (TBI) and spinal cord injury; forward surgical/intensive critical care; control, resuscitation and blood products, craniomaxillofacial injury, lung injury and burns; and enroute care. For rehabilitative medicine, efforts include pain management and regenerative medicine clinical trials.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2015
- Source ID
- 374A_0604110HP_2_0130_PB_2015