SWAC3: Secure Wireless Architecture for Combat Casualty Care

Warfighters face a wide range of injuries and effective medical monitoring and response at the point of injury (POI) can be of critical importance for their recovery. While there are many emerging combat casualty care medical systems available, most of them are commonly based on proprietary systems and sensors that make it difficult to achieve secure and transparent wireless capabilities for medical monitoring and intervention, information capture, storage and security, and communications integration with both civilian and military networks. In combat environment, it is of critical importance for casualty care unit to have access to reliable and secure wireless physiological monitoring, medical information exchange, imaging, and telemedicine technologies. The solution is needed to enhance the current state of segregated proprietary medical sensors and systems that require specialized hardware and software to operate. The solution needs to enable secure and transparent close range wireless integration of current and future medical sensors with diverse tactical ruggedized smartphone platforms, and also provide connectivity with commercial and DoD radios and networks. Through these capabilities it will be possible to significantly enhance capabilities of Enroute Combat Casualty Care and ultimately minimize battlefield mortality.