DHIC News Archive 2020

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.