MEDITACC: Medical Evaluation, Diagnosis, and Information Transfer for Advanced Casualty Care

In recent history of 30,000 US military casualties in Iraq/Afghanistan, “less than 10% of these casualties’ records had any documentation of the care that was provided before the casualty reached a medical treatment facility.� Technology to automate acquisition, recording, transfer and interpretation of tactical combat casualty care (TCCC) information can help improve combat triage and field medical response. Vivonics proposes to develop the MEDITACC system (Medical Evaluation, Diagnosis, and Information Transfer for Advanced Casualty Care) to provide the capability to remotely monitor, rapidly diagnose, and triage medical needs of a modern warfighter. MEDITACC is a system of systems that will build upon prior and ongoing developments by Vivonics, and others, in wearable electronics, advanced processing algorithms for physiological parameters, mobile computing and secure wireless data transfer. In Phase I, Vivonics will conduct outreach to military users (combat medics) and other stakeholders (trauma physicians, computing platform developers, and acquisition commanders) to assess user needs, existing computing and communication infrastructure and establish an architecture for MEDITACC. These efforts will assure MEDITACC is designed to assist and augment military medics in implementing the principals of Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC) and provide automated electronic records from Role 1 care up