Innovative Technologies for Improved Medical Diagnoses, Rehabilitation and Warfighter Readiness
Abstract
The TTW program aims to support highly collaborative advanced technology projects by bringing together industry, academia and civilian medical centers including minority serving institutions with experience in solving defense and civilian health problems. Supported projects will focus on the 3 principal medical areas for defense health (Combat Casualty Care, Military Operational Medicine, and Clinical and Rehabilitative Medicine) with an emphasis on direct relevance to identified military needs, translational potential and clear strategy for product commercialization with a low to medium risk – high reward payoff. Additionally, for USU, the TTW program will cultivate, establish and leverage partnerships between USU faculty/investigators and industry, academia and civilian medical centers including minority serving institutions. Results from the TTW program will increase DoD’s workforce capability, DoD’s access to leading edge technologies and leverage industry knowledge and funded research data for warfighter medical needs. Surgical Critical Care (SC2i) will enroll critically ill patients, leveraging deep medical and –omics data to develop Clinical Decision Support Tools (CDSTs) that will improve clinical outcomes and lower resource utilization across military and civilian healthcare systems. The CDSTs will further assist readiness by either accelerating return to duty (abridged length-of-stay across the ICU, general ward, and rehabilitation continuum of care) and curbing medical resource burdens. Rehabilitation Sciences Research supports clinical and translational research efforts dedicated to enhancing the rehabilitative care of the wounded warrior, particularly those with orthopeadic trauma, amputation and neurological injury. Research focus areas include: 1)Identifying and mitigating barriers to successful rehabilitation, return to duty and community reintegration; 2) Improved pain management to support active participation in rehabilitation; 3) Applying Advanced Technologies to augment rehabilitation methods and outcomes assessments; 4) Developing and testing advanced technologies to restore individual functional independence; 5) Regenerative Rehabilitation translational products for war-related trauma.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2021
- Source ID
- b2a669c4150ad52fc168a090aee5f036