MSAT Lead Investigator Support
Abstract
Medical Situational Awareness in the Theater (MSAT) will evaluate existing technologies that can provide enhanced operational medical situational awareness to Combatant Commanders. Presently, Combatant Commanders lack timely, complete, actionable health information for operational decision-making, thereby putting troops at unnecessary risk to illness or injury and jeopardizing force strength and morale. Current stovepipe information systems do not provide timely trend analysis, access to clinical care, or immediate warning alerts that identify risks. Rather, these disparate systems require intensive human manipulation, which causes systems to be poorly used. The approach will be to develop and enact proper integration and configuration to fuse current and emerging technologies and apply artificial intelligence and computerized decision support systems to transform collected, scattered data into timely, actionable information and knowledge. The timely analysis of the disparate data in existing service medical, environmental and personnel databases and the reporting of results will allow protective measures to be implemented and factored into the medical and operational status of deployed Joint Forces. The ACTD will evaluate and exploit applicable commercial products, technologies including: fusion applications; artificial intelligence capabilities; web-enabling technologies; sensor and point-of-use data capture technologies; and technologies for the capture and analysis of physiological changes.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 01, 2006
- Accession Number
- ADA463938
Entities
People
- Frank Garland
Organizations
- Naval Health Research Center