Asclepius: AI perception system for combat casualty care documentation

Design Interactive, Inc. (DI) proposes the development of Asclepius, an artificially intelligent system for automating the interpretation of combat casualty care scenes and the generation of patient encounter documentation. Asclepius will be a force multiplier for combat medics performing prolonged field care, granting them more time to provide direct care as well as better access to data-driven decision support systems. Using a custom-built perception system, Asclepius will analyze medics and casualties in its field of view and identify what, when, and where medical procedures have been performed. Asclepius will then use these data to generate XML documentation that complies with SNOMED-CT and HL7 v3.0 to allow for an efficient healthcare workflow from the initial point of care to higher-level medical treatment facilities. Asclepius will be deployed on the Army’s Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS) and will seamlessly integrate with other military end-user devices and software such as the Battlefield Assisted Trauma Distributed Observation Kit (BATDOK), making it a completely hands-free solution. Critically, Asclepius will be designed to run on local processing power to facilitate its use in denied, intermittent, and low-bandwidth (DIL) comms environments.