AMTI Latest News
March 2023
22 March, 2023
NLP helps military medicine meet unmet needs
Natural language processing, a form of AI, devours all the text in countless pages of healthcare documents to help health IT experts in the U.S. military do their job more efficiently.
January 2023
20 January, 2023
SURGICAL TELEMENTORING: CONNECTING REMOTE EXPERTISE TO OPTIMIZE OPERATIONAL CARE DELIVERY
Championed by Naval Medical Center-San Diego’s Virtual Medical Operations Center (VMOC), a relatively new, communications-based, autonomy-facilitative practice enabling remote telementoring to boost operational surgical capability.
September 2021
30 September, 2021
Covid-19 Airway Management Isolation Chamber (CAMIC)
COVID-19 has drastically changed the world. Its airborne spread and prolonged, silent transmission have wreaked havoc on an unprepared enterprise - the military was no exception. During the early phases of the outbreak, hospitals struggled to increase personal protective equipment (PPE), and frequent exposures decreased the number of available healthcare workers. This threat remains as novel variants cycle through populations.
30 September, 2021
What I Have Learned From AMTI: A Perspective from AMTI Recipient COL (Ret) Don Goss, DPT, PhD
Many, many thanks to the TATRC leadership for championing the AMTI program! Initially managed by Mr. John Winston, and now Ms. Holly Pavliscsak, this program has had a remarkable impact on the Baylor University-Keller Army Community Hospital Division 1 Sports Physical Therapy Fellowship at West Point, NY, and has taught our team, and me personally, very much over the last 7+ years.
June 2021
30 June, 2021
Promoting healthier food purchases among military Service Members at Fort Bragg
A majority of military Service Members are overweight or obese and are not meeting physical fitness goals, leading to increased health care costs and days of lost work per year.
30 June, 2021
A Genomic Classifier for the Early Detection of Ectopic Pregnancy
Did you know that nearly 16% of active component U.S. military members are women, and the majority are reproductive age? As the number of military servicewomen and their operational scope increase, it is important to understand and mitigate health issues that uniquely impact female servicemember readiness.
30 June, 2021
Gait Retraining Enhances Athletes’ Technique (GREAT) Running
Military service members continue to sustain traumatic anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries at a high rate in training and sports-related activities. The significant lost duty time, poor self-reported functional outcomes, and long-term disability caused by these injuries directly leads to degraded operational readiness and exorbitant costs to both the Military Health System (MHS) and the Department of Veterans Affairs.
March 2021
31 March, 2021
Important Upcoming FY22 AMTI Submission Deadlines
TATRC has opened the Advanced Medical Technology Initiative (AMTI), formally AMEDD Advanced Medical Technology Initiative (AAMTI) proposal submission process for FY22.
31 March, 2021
AMTI Project Spotlight: Optimizing REBOA for the Austere Combat Environment Using the COMPASS® Portable Pressure Monitor
Although there have been great advances in the care of Service Members wounded in combat and other operational environments, bleeding remains a common cause of death. Among deaths that have been determined to be “potentially preventable,” hemorrhage has been identified as the primary cause in 80-90% of cases.
31 March, 2021
Adapting in the Year of a Pandemic: AMTI Town Halls Go Virtual
In a typical year, Ms. Holly Pavliscsak, the Advanced Medical Technology Initiative (AMTI) Program Manager (PM) visits two to three military treatment facilities (MTF) on-site and in person where AMTI has active projects to check in with Innovators directly.
December 2020
31 December, 2020
AMTI Project Spotlight: Application of a Cognitive Mastery Learning Curriculum to Improve Fasciotomy Performance
Injuries to the lower leg are very common in combat casualties and one of the frequent consequences of such injuries is increased pressure within the envelope surrounding those muscle groups called Compartment Syndrome (CS).
31 December, 2020
TATRC’s AMTI Hosts First Virtual Town Hall Amid COVID-19 Pandemic
On 13 November, TATRC’s Advanced Medical Technology Initiative (AMTI) hosted a virtual town hall for the staff at Brooke Army Medical Center (BAMC). This virtual event was led by AMTI Program Manager, Ms. Holly Pavliscsak, who has managed the AMTI since 2016 and has 24 years’ experience in military medical research with an emphasis on medical technology projects and telemedicine.
31 December, 2020
AMTI Project Spotlight: Novel Technology to Provide Real-Time Physiological Monitoring of Patients with TBI
Around 20% of combat casualties from Iraq and Afghanistan have sustained a traumatic brain injury (TBI). Furthermore, Service Members with blast-related injuries often sustain multiple co-occurring disorders, including Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and other mood disorders, chronic pain, and cognitive dysfunctions.
31 December, 2020
Advanced Medical Technology Initiative (AMTI) Update
As with most things in the DoD, change is a common occurrence. In the last year the AMEDD Advanced Medical Technology Initiative (AAMTI) has undergone some big changes of its own.
September 2020
30 September, 2020
AMTI Project Spotlight: High-throughput Screening of Military-relevant Contaminants Using ECIS Technology
Soldiers encounter a wide range of potentially toxic chemicals throughout their military lifecycle; however, fast and inexpensive toxicity screening of chemicals found in and around military sites is not currently available.
30 September, 2020
AMTI Project Spotlight: Real Time Bio-Feedback During Running Rehabilitation
This project is the second in a line of AMTI-funded work using real-time bio-feedback to improve performance and rehabilitation outcomes for Service Members with severe lower extremity injuries. Ankle-foot orthoses are a type of bracing system often prescribed to support and stabilize the ankle and foot of individuals with lower extremity injuries.
June 2020
30 June, 2020
AMTI Project Spotlight: Let the COMPASS® Guide the Way: Optimizing REBOA for the Austere Combat Environment
Resuscitative endovascular balloon occlusion of the aorta (REBOA) for hemorrhage control after severe traumatic injury is rapidly gaining use in both civilian trauma centers and in the deployed environment.
30 June, 2020
AMTI Project Spotlight: An Endometrial Classifier for the Early Detection of Ectopic Pregnancy
Nearly 16% of active component U.S. military members are women, and the majority are reproductive age. As the number of military servicewomen and their operational scope increase, it is important to understand and mitigate the prevalent health issues that uniquely impact their readiness.
March 2020
31 March, 2020
Use of the RAPTOR System in Outpatient Physical Therapy: A Multi-Site Demonstration Project
Physical therapists regularly evaluate and treat patients with musculoskeletal (MSK) injuries, which is the number one cause of medical non-deployability in military personnel. To effectively treat and manage injuries, physical therapists perform many tests and measures to assess a patient’s function, movement, and other factors that contribute to injury and recovery.
31 March, 2020
AMTI Project Spotlight: Rapid Qualitative Antibiotic Resistance Characterization Using VITEK MS
The emergence of antibiotic resistant organisms pose a significant public health concern. The prevalence of antibiotic resistance especially in Gram-negative bacteria continues to increase globally. Since the beginning of Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom, the U.S. military healthcare system has experienced a notable increase in the number of antibiotic-resistant organisms being isolated from wounded Service Members.