Digital Archive and Access to Lifetime Military Medical Records

Military health records are collected at the installation where the service member separates and is sent to a central military records repository. Subsequent access to these records by the individual, healthcare provider, or by a Veteran's Affairs representative is accomplished via a difficult bureaucratic and manual process. These records are then often lost or misplaced. By combining CASE-LLC and and CHS expertise and experience, we will develop a concept and design to automate these medical records and make them readily accessible by a web enabled system. There are unique challanges in developing the concept and design because of non-standard, descriptive healthcare terrmonology. This design will lead to lowering health care costs, improving patient care and creating predictable models for future planning.