Patient Transportable Tactical Combat Casualty Care Documentation Capability

CR&D will develop a hand-held, temporary tattoo printer designed to be used to print tattoos on the skin of warfighters at the POI or healthcare facility with the intent of replacing TC3 cards and aftercare instructions respectively. The intent is to eliminate the loss of information resulting from various touch-points along the continuum of care or in the days following outpatient release. Paperwork is easily lost in transit so the solution is to provide the ability to encode the necessary information into a tattoo that can be printed on the patient's skin. The dye used will be temporary and will dissolve over the course of time but will remain readable long enough to benefit the patient.