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The U.S. Army Medical Command’s (MEDCOM) Army Recovery Care Program (ARCP), is the program where the Army’s Wounded, Ill and Injured (WII) Soldiers go to heal and transition. Currently, the ARCP includes 14 discrete Soldier Recovery Units (SRU).

The current rise in COVID-19 cases due to the COVID-19 Delta variant have resulted in numerous requests for virtual care support using the National Emergency TeleCritical Care Network or NETCCN system.

Ms. Tiffany Williamson, the Administrative Assistant and “glue” for our Digital Health Innovation Center (DHIC) at Fort Gordon, GA is TATRC’s newest Employee of the Quarter for the 4th Quarter FY21.

TATRC’s Digital Health Innovation Center (DHIC)’s project ‘FOXTROT’ (Forward Operating Base Expert Telemedicine Resource Utilizing Mobile Application for Trauma) was presented this past August at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) 2021 conference by LTC Gary Legault, the Virtual MEDCEN Director.

This past April, Ms. Jeanette Little, Division Chief for TATRC’s Digital Health Innovation Center (DHIC), delivered a virtual presentation as the closing keynote speaker to graduate students from the Johns Hopkins University and Augusta University.

The FOXTROT platform (provider portal and accompanying mobile application) was incorporated into a training session during the Ocular Trauma Course at The Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS) in Bethesda, MD this past May.

TATRC’s Digital Health Innovation Center (DHIC) has begun work on a fast turnaround project to capture COVID-19 diagnostic test data and transfer this information into the DoD Electronic Health Record (EHR) and COVID-19 surveillance dashboards.

TATRC’s Digital Health Innovation Center (DHIC), through its Project BOOM, supporting the Joint Health Risk Management Enhanced Capability Demonstration (JHRM ECD), continued agile software development to add to the suite of prototype capabilities for Blast Exposure Monitoring (BEMO) hosted in the Mobile Health Care Environment (MHCE).

TATRC continues its growing partnership with fellow collaborator’s at the U.S. Air Force’s 59th Medical Wing, furthering the secure mobile application known as ‘FOXTROT’ and its accompanying web portal.

TATRC’s Digital Health Innovation Center (DHIC) said goodbye to one of their key Project Managers, Ms. Amanda Schmeltz, earlier last month. Amanda, who joined TATRC in 2016, quickly became an integral part of the digital and mobile health team at Fort Gordon.

TATRC’s Digital Health Innovation Center (DHIC) in Fort Gordon, GA is pleased to announce that their core developer cell is expanding due to the high volume of workload.

Congratulations are in order as our very own Digital Health Innovation Center (DHIC) Division Chief, Ms. Jeanette Little, was selected as a 2020 G2Xchange Leading for Impact, Women in Leadership Award Winner!

Mr. Scott Kotz joins the TATRC’s Digital Health Innovation Center’s team as a new technical Project Manager. He will primarily be focused on maintaining the extensive workflow for the TATRC development team at the Fort Gordon office in Augusta, GA.

Demonstrations for Project BOOM, the Blast Over-pressure Exposure Monitoring effort, encompassing the Weapons Firing Log mobile app and web portal features, are near complete.

ATRC’s Digital Health Innovation Center’s FOXTROT project continues its trail blazing campaign in the realm of teleophthalmology. As reported in prior editions of TATRC TIMES, TATRC’s DHIC team continues its partnership with the U.S. Air Force 59th Medical Wing in further developing the secure mobile application FOXTROT, which focuses on the treatment of ocular trauma in remote deployed locations.

Work on the Blast Over-pressure Exposure Monitoring project continues as TATRC’s Digital Health Innovation Center (DHIC) programmers are developing a weapons firing log mobile application and a web portal, known as BEMO, within the mCare / MHCE system in support of the Joint Health Risk Management Enhanced Capability Demonstration (JHRM ECD) program which is a research collaboration between Defense Health Agency (DHA), the Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical Biological Radiological and Nuclear Defense (JPEO CBRND) and U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM).

A peer review journal article summarizing the results of deploying the TATRC Digital Health Innovation Center (DHIC) research project known as ‘FOXTROT,’ was published in JAMA Ophthalmology this past August.

Congratulations are in order for Ms. Tabitha Waldrop of TATRC’s Digital Health Innovation Center (DHIC) located in Fort Gordon, GA for being recognized as the organization’s Employee of the Quarter for Quarter 4! Tabitha has been performing double duty for TATRC since the inception of the Technology in Disaster Environments (TiDE) efforts which commenced this past spring to support the COVID-19 response.

Known internally to TATRC as “Project BOOM,” the Mobile Health Innovation Center (mHIC) team is developing a weapons firing log, mobile application and a web portal within the mCare / Mobile Health Care Environment (MHCE) system to help environmental health professionals track longitudinal Warfighter exposures to blast overpressure during live fire weapons training.

The 2020 Federal Health IT Innovation Awards were announced in early June, and TATRC was one of the awardees!

This year’s event, originally scheduled for March, moved to a virtual platform on 3 June due to the COVID-19 pandemic and featured an interactive and engaging online event.

The long awaited publication of TATRC’s partnership with Clemson University on assessing the impact of mCare on the Patient Activation Measures (PAM scores) of Diabetics based out of Nellis Air Force Base (NAFB) and Madigan Army Medical Center (MAMC) was officially published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR) this May.

Zaheir Razak, a senior developer supporting TATRC Mobile Health Innovation Center (mHIC) at Fort Gordon, Georgia is one of their rising stars! In May 2020, while working full time, he graduated from Georgia Tech with a second Master’s Degree.

Congratulations are in order for Mr. Robert “Rob” Chewning for being named TATRC’s Q2 Employee of the Quarter. Rob is a Project Officer with the Mobile Health Innovation Center (mHIC) and serves as the on-site lead and supervisor for all of TATRC’s Project Officers.

Mr. Nathanael “Nate” Montgomery is the Mobile Health Innovation Center’s (mHIC) Employee of the Quarter at TATRC’s Fort Gordon office, in Augusta, Georgia for Quarter 2. Nate works as a mobile developer at the mHIC and is directly responsible for the mobile app design, deployment and feature updates for the lab’s Mobile Health Care Environment (MHCE) system.