DHIC News Archive 2019

On Friday, 11 October, mHIC staff members from our office at Fort Gordon in Augusta, Georgia took to the links in the name of charity. Mr. Marvin Cole, Mr. TJ Brown, Ms. Tabitha Waldrop and Mr. Nate Montgomery took time away from the office to volunteer and participate in the Blake Hadden Memorial Golf Tournament. This local tournament was established in 2018, in memory of a young native Augusta golfer whose life ended too soon.

On 10 October 2019, Ms. Jeanette Little and Ms. Amanda Schmeltz from TATRC’s Mobile Health Innovation Center (mHIC) in Fort Gordon spent the day at the Clemson University School of Public Health, in an extensive working session where they collaborated with Dr. Ron Gimbel and his team of researchers to discuss key findings and results from their latest research study, and finalize details for some upcoming peer reviewed publications.

Congratulations are in order for Mr. Ronnie “Dean” Parrish of TATRC’s Mobile Health Innovation Center located at Fort Gordon in Augusta, GA. Mr. Parrish is dual hatted and serves as a mobile application and web portal developer for the MHCE system, and was specifically recognized this quarter for his efforts to develop and field the beta version of an ocular trauma mobile telemedicine application known as FOXTROT.

Over the past 2 years, the Army National Guard (ARNG) and TATRC’s Mobile Health Innovation Center (mHIC) have been working collaboratively on a medical readiness app called ‘PR2ME’ (Portal for Ready and Resilient Individuals Using Mobile Enterprise). PR2ME, a component of the Mobile Health Care Environment (MHCE) system, is a novel and secure mobile application that ARNG citizen-soldiers can use on their personal devices to complete the DoD Periodic Health Assessment (PHA), Part A.

Ocular Expert Visits TATRC Fort Gordon Campus

The last week of September brought a welcome visit to the Mobile Health Innovation Center’s (mHIC) Ft. Gordon team as LTC Jennifer Stowe visited for two full days of collaboration and further project planning for the highly acclaimed Forward Operating Base EXpert Telemedicine Resource Utilizing MObile Application for Trauma (FOXTROT) project.

TATRC’s Mobile Health Innovation Center (mHIC) successfully utilizes its Mobile Health Care Environment (MHCE) platform for the implementation of research and pilot evaluations to determine the clinical impact on care coordination between patients and providers utilizing an encrypted, bi-directional mobile messaging system.

Team TATRC made their way to the sunshine state in Kissimmee, Florida from 19 – 23 August for the MHS Research Symposium (MHSRS). The Annual MHSRS, held at the Gaylord Palms Resort & Convention Center, is the Department of Defense’s premier scientific meeting that focuses on Combat Casualty Care (CCC).

Mr. James West and Mr. Patrick Arida, both of the Defense Health Agency’s (DHA) Virtual Health (VH) Program Management Office visited TATRC’s Mobile Health Innovation Center (mHIC) at Fort Gordon earlier this summer for an all-day information sharing session between both offices. As DHA VH evolves, many changes in strategies, staff, and capabilities are occurring which bring quite a lot of uncertainty and challenges.

“One Team, One Mission – Enabling MHS Transformation” was the powerful theme of this year’s 2019 Defense Health Information Technology Symposium (DHITS) Conference which took place from 29 July – 1 August. COL Jeremy Pamplin, TATRC’s Director, Mr. Ron Yeaw, mHIC’s Lab Deputy, and Mr. Edward Kensinger, mHIC Project Manager participated in this exciting event which took place in Orlando, FL

MP7: TATRC Participates in Highly Immersive Prolonged-Field Care Training Event

From 16 - 19 July, COL Jeremy Pamplin, TATRC’s Director led Mr. Ron Yeaw, Mobile Health Innovation Center Deputy Lab Manager, and Mr. Jimmy Gaudaen, Project Officer to the North Carolina mountains where they participated in the 7th Mountain Path (MP7) Prolonged Field Care (PFC) Training event with the 4th Battalion/3rd Special Forces Group (Airborne) at Ragged Edge Solutions (RES) Training Center in Tarboro, NC.

The 2019 Army National Guard’s (ARNG) annual Medical Team Conference (MTC) was held at Camp Dawson, West Virginia from 4 - 10 May. Nearly 350 participants from the 54 States and Territories engaged in briefings, small group discussions, and interactive demonstrations, that all focused on innovation and process improvement as they support the Army’s strategic priorities of lethality and sustained readiness.

In the 4th quarter of FY19, TATRC commenced an exciting new partnership with the Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical Biological Radiological and Nuclear (JPEO CBRN) Defense team on a pilot research and technical demonstration effort.

In FY19, a new research area, known as Virtual Health (VH) awarded its first funding. Ms. Jeanette Little from TATRC serves as a capability area manager (CAM) for this new research portfolio. This is significant since the Army research portfolios are realigning efforts to address the priority areas for our future Warfighters.

FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AFNS) --
Eye injuries in a deployed setting can be a significant setback for any Airman, but new telemedicine capabilities are helping to keep them in the fight.

With funding from the 59th Medical Wing, Joint Base San Antonio, Texas, Air Force and Army medical researchers are developing a HIPAA-compliant smart phone application to connect providers downrange with on-call ophthalmologists either in-theater or at a clinic.

This Spring, members of TATRC’s Mobile Health Innovation Center (mHIC), visited both the Army’s Virtual Medical Center within Brooke Army Medical Center (BAMC), in San Antonio, TX and Walter Reed National Military Medical Center (WRNMMC).

TATRC’s Mobile Health Innovation Center (mHIC) launched a new research effort with the U.S. Air Force this past March. This joint effort is in partnership with the 59th Medical Wing Science & Technology (59 MDW/ST) Chief Scientist’s Office, which is a novel collaboration for TATRC to date.

Mr. Richard “Rick” Eshman recently joined the TATRC team as an IT System Administrator supporting the Mobile Health Innovation Center (mHIC) at our Fort Gordon office.

On 31 January, Ms. Esmilda “Angie” Hill retired from TATRC after 31 years of dedicated civilian service. Angie served as the Executive Administrative Assistant for TATRC’s Mobile Health Innovation Center (mHIC) located at Fort Gordon in Augusta, GA.

On 2 January, TATRC’s Mobile Health Innovation Center (mHIC), located at Fort Gordon, GA, received a full Authority To Operate (ATO) under the new Defense Health Agency (DHA) Risk Management Framework (RMF) certification system for the Mobile Health Care Environment Research (MHCE-R).