Technology Opportunities: Implementation of Deployment Health Policy in Operational Theaters

Abstract

It is U.S. policy that medical and personnel information systems be designed, integrated, and utilized with military medical surveillance to protect the physical and mental health of Service members throughout their military service. Within the last several years, new applications of information technology have vastly expanded the military's capabilities for surveillance, and these technologies are now starting to move out of hospitals and other fixed facilities into forward-deployed settings. Surveillance technology must evolve toward an integrated "system of systems" that can comprehensively address future needs to identify acute and chronic exposures of military personnel to health threats over the course of their entire military career. Many of the necessary component technologies are now available or will soon be available. Some of these applications have already been integrated, while others are simply prototypes or early concepts. This paper discusses the capabilities of current surveillance programs and the technology applications that are included within them: Department of Defense Global Emerging Infections Surveillance and Response System (GEIS); Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-Based Epidemics (ESSENCE); Defense Medical Surveillance System (DMSS); Department of Defense Serum Repository (DoDSR); Defense Occupational and Environmental Health Readiness System (DOEHRS); Deployment Environmental Surveillance System; and Emerging Geographic Information System (GIS)-Based Applications. New technologies are emerging that will push surveillance capabilities even farther forward. This will be made possible by the miniaturization of computing capabilities and new sensor technologies, as well as by the ability to connect these systems to the larger surveillance system of systems. Examples are the Battlefield Medical Information System-Tactical (BMIS-T); Individual Status Monitoring; and the Joint Medical Workstation (JMeWS).7

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 2004
Accession Number
ADA433644

Entities

People

  • Lester Martinez-lopez

Organizations

  • United States Army Medical Research and Development Command

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Death
  • Department Of Defense
  • Disease Outbreaks
  • Environmental Health
  • Environmental Monitoring
  • Geographic Information Systems
  • Health
  • Health Care
  • Health Services
  • Hospitals
  • Information Systems
  • Medical Personnel
  • Military Medicine
  • Military Personnel
  • Patient Care
  • System Of Systems
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Readers

  • Infectious Disease/Epidemiology
  • Medical or Health Care Field.
  • Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics