DHIC News Archive 2017

Congratulations to Team TATRC for having not one, but two Labs recognized for their outstanding efforts in two key areas: TATRC’s Mobile Health Innovation Center (mHIC) and our Medical Modeling & Simulation Innovation Center (MMSIC)!

Ms. Yukia Green joins the TATRC family as one of our newest Project Officers, with expertise in Program and Project Management directly supporting TATRC’s mHIC Lab in Ft. Gordon, GA.

TATRC’s mHIC Team in Ft. Gordon, GA is excited to announce the arrival of Ms. Tiffany Williamson who is joining the team as an administrative support officer.

TATRC’s Mobile Health Innovation Center (mHIC) has formally launched a new research project entitled “Telehealth 2.0 Providing Continuity of Behavioral Health Clinical Care to Patients Using Mobile Devices” in partnership with the Defense Health Agency (DHA), Psychological Health Center of Excellence and Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center at Fort Hood.

On 13 November Mr. Robert Chewning, Senior Project Analyst, was recognized by TATRC Director COL Dan Kral at the monthly ‘All Hands’ Meeting for his dedicated efforts and numerous contributions to TATRC’s mHIC Lab.

On 1 November, four key team members of TATRC’s Mobile Health Innovation Center (mHIC) spent the afternoon at the Warrior Care & Transition (WCT) Command, in Crystal City, Virginia. The purpose of the meeting was to ensure that all the documentation and other logistics were aligned to make certain that the WCT could begin using mHIC’s Mobile Health Care Environment – Enterprise (MHCE-E) system for remote monitoring of Warriors in Transition.

TATRC’s research portfolio just grew a bit larger, with an eye on future health. Based on guidance from the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology) ASA in 2016, the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command (USAMRMC) re-programmed $18 million annually of Army Research Development Test & Evaluation funds in the Fiscal Year (FY) 19-23 Program Objective Memorandum to re-focus some of the ongoing initiatives further into the future.

TATRC’s Mobile Health Innovation Center (mHIC) team was notified in mid-October that their journal article entitled: “Does ‘mCare’ improve quality of life and treatment satisfaction among Service Members rehabilitating in the community? Results from a 36-week, randomized controlled trial,” has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Military Medicine.

TATRC and Clemson University’s research project provides remote home monitoring to diabetic patients assigned to case managers at Madigan Army Medical Center (MAMC) and Nellis Air Force Base (NAFB).

At the request of the United States Army Recruiting Command, Ms. Jeanette Little from TATRC, was invited to serve as a guest speaker at a continuing medical education event on Army research in Mobile Health Initiatives at the Norwegian American Hospital in Chicago on 14 September.

Enrollment In early July 2017, the Diabetic Home Monitoring Study based out of Madigan Army Medical Center (MAMC) and Nellis Air Force Base (AFB), began patient enrollment.

In an upcoming edition of the Journal of Mobile Technology in Medicine (JMTM), TATRC’s Mobile Health Innovation Center (mHIC) will be featured with an original article entitled “Usability of a Mobile Application for Patients Rehabilitating in their Community.”

In April 2017, the Mobile Health Care Environment (MHCE) Research System and its secure mobile app, known as mCare, was deployed for use in a clinical research study at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center (WRNMMC) in Bethesda, MD.

This Spring, Mobile Health Innovation Center (mHIC) Deputy Lab Manager, Ronald ‘Everest’ Yeaw redefined testing in austere environments when he conducted several field tests of the mHIC Mobile Health App known as mCare, as well as its supporting MHCE infrastructure, at Everest Base Camp 1 (EBC1) in Nepal, just 12.1 miles from the summit of Mt. Everest.

A big shout out and hearty congratulations to Team TATRC for being recognized by the Federal Health (FedHealth) IT Innovation Awards for the BioGears® physiology engine out of TATRC’s Medical Modeling & Simulation Innovation Center (MMSIC) lab, and to the Mobile Health Care Environment (MHCE) project from TATRC’s Mobile Health Innovation Center (mHIC) Lab.

This February, representatives from team TATRC attended the 2017 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Conference in Orlando, Florida.

TATRC has partnered with key leaders from the Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) and an extramural partner, the Clemson University Department of Public Health Services on a multi-phased research project funded by the Joint Program Committee ( JPC-1) to monitor diabetic patients in their homes using patient’s personal cell phones, and home biosensors.

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