MedRAS News Archive 2018

TATRC is excited to announce the launch of two new Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) projects to address tracking combat casualty care in the pre-hospital setting.

Can Unmanned Vehicles be made safe for evacuating combat casualties from hostile environments? That is the question which prompted ongoing collaboration between TATRC and the U.S. Army Aeromedical Research Laboratory (USAARL) in research aimed at developing methods for measuring environmental factors that could affect patient safety onboard unmanned ground and air systems.

This past Fall, team members from TATRC’s Medical Intelligent Systems Lab (MISL) traveled to Oahu, Hawaii, where they performed training, network integration, and testing of telemedicine systems in support of the Island Marauder exercise.

TATRC’s Medical Intelligent Systems Lab (MISL) sent a team of four personnel to participate in the Army’s Network Integration Exercise (NIE) 18.2 in partnership with Program Executive Office (PEO) Aviation at Fort Bliss in El Paso, TX this past Fall.

At the end of FY18, TATRC’s Medical Intelligent Systems Lab (MISL) successfully completed its research of a JPC-1-funded three-year Medical Cloud Connectivity for Combat Casualty Care (MC5).

On 24 October 2018, Mr. James Beach, Project Manager for TATRC’s Medical Intelligent Systems Lab, traveled to U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) Headquarters in Tampa, FL, to support Mr. Jeff Luciano, the Assistant Program Manager for the Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC) Casualty Evacuation (CASEVAC) program.

On Tuesday, 13 November, TATRC had the distinct honor of hosting three senior military leaders from the Korean Armed Forces Nursing Academy for a morning of briefings on our key initiatives and focus areas, followed by an interactive tour and demonstration of our top technologies in the areas of Simulation, Unmanned Systems and Robotics, and Operational Telemedicine.

Dr. Gary Gilbert, Mr. Nathan Fisher and Ms. Rebecca Lee of TATRC’s Medical Intelligent Systems Lab, along with several other representatives from the U.S. Army Medical Research & Materiel Command (MRMC), the Office of Naval Research (ONR), and Air Force 59th MDW, traveled to Israel in early September.

The U.S. Army Medical Research & Materiel Command’s Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC), held a telesurgical consultation test and evaluation event at TATRC, 4-7 September 2018. TATRC conducted a proof-of-concept capabilities study to meet research objectives on multiple systems to perform tactical telemedicine & communications integration testing, as well as operational and technical proof-of-concept research objectives for Prolonged Care.

The 2018 Association of the United States Army’s Institute of Land Warfare Army Medical Symposium and Exposition was held at the Henry B. Gonzalez Center in San Antonio, TX from 27-28 June. The goal of the symposium was to educate and inform the attendees on a wide-array of challenges and opportunities for Army medicine in an increasingly complex world.

Summer sizzled this past August with TATRC heating things up in the District! On 22 – 23 August, two members from the Medical Intelligent Systems Laboratory (MISL) represented TATRC at the 2018 National Defense Industrial Association’s Army Science & Technology Symposium and Showcase.

Mr. Tom Bigott, Project Manager supporting TATRC’s Medical Intelligent Systems Lab (MISL) has been named TATRC’s Employee of the Quarter for Q4 for his continued excellent work and untiring efforts supporting three significant MISL Projects: 1) Joint Program Committee – 1 (JPC-1) funded Medical Communications for Combat Casualty Care, 2) MRMC funded P6.7 electronic Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC) Card / DD1380 implementation for site of injury and pre-hospital enroute care in Army and Marine Corps tactical ground formations, and 3) the Virginia Tech Medic’s Ruggedized SMART Phone GUI project.

In preparing to address the medical needs of future conflict, Dr. Gary Gilbert, TATRC Chair of the Joint Medical Unmanned Systems Working Group (JMUSWG), worked in concert with the Executive Secretary of the Armed Services Biomedical Research and Evaluation and Management (ASBREM) to plan, organize, convene, and execute an Autonomous Medical Evacuation (AME) State of the Science Workshop.

The U.S. Army Medical Research & Materiel Command’s Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center, held a telesurgical consultation test and evaluation event at TATRC, 4-7 September 2018. TATRC conducted a proof-of-concept capabilities study to meet research objectives on multiple systems to perform tactical telemedicine & communications integration testing, as well as operational and technical proof-of-concept research objectives for Prolonged Care.

Two key staff members from TATRC’s Medical Intelligent Systems Lab (MISL) were invited as guest speakers to present at the Army Health System Mission Command and Interoperability in Multi-Domain Battle (MDB) Seminar, 3-6 April, at the Health Readiness Center of Excellence (HRCoE) at Joint Base San Antonio, TX.

TATRC’s Medical Intelligent Systems Lab (MISL) entered into a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with CORNET Technologies on 4 June.

Eight members from Team TATRC participated in this year’s Special Operations Medical Association’s Scientific Assembly (SOMSA) in Charlotte, North Carolina from 14 – 17 May.

On 17 April, TATRC was pleased and honored to host Lieutenant General Edward C. Cardon for a visit and tour of our initiatives and capabilities. As LTG Cardon is an advocate of “disruptive innovation,” visiting TATRC to learn about how we rapidly prototype and think outside the box was a natural fit.

On 6 June, TATRC had the distinct honor of hosting three Dutch Military Medical Officers, representing the Netherlands Surgeon General’s office. COL Albert Riedstra, Lt. COL Eric Onnouw, and Lt. COL Marc de Bruijn were on site to visit USAMRMC, and came to TATRC specifically to learn about Virtual Medicine, Operational Medicine, Robotic & Autonomous Systems, and Medical Modeling & Simulation.

Two members of TATRC’s Medical Intelligent Systems Lab (MISL), Mr. Carl Manemeit and Mr. James Beach, briefed the Army-Marine Corps (A/MC) Command, Control and Situational Awareness (C2/SA) Convergence Systems Engineering Integrated Process Team (IPT) on Operational Virtual Health research concepts.

The Operational Telemedicine team under TATRC, pursues research objectives that support medical data exchanges of information for Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TC3) in the Prolonged Field Care environment to enhance the delivery of healthcare by military medical personnel from the point of need throughout the continuum of care in the operational environment to a Role III facility.

It wasn’t that long ago when the concept of the future—this time beyond time, this collection of years on the horizon somewhere—was just that, a simple concept. But as we move from Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) and Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) onto a newer and more complex version of the battlefield, the future is beginning to look increasingly familiar—more and more like a direct reflection of the past.

Several members of Team TATRC were invited to Carlisle Barracks in PA to participate in a weeklong ‘deep dive’ into the topic of how the Army will employ robotics and autonomous systems (RAS) in a future operating environment using the Multi-Domain Battle (MDB) framework.

Several members of Team TATRC were invited to Carlisle Barracks in PA to participate in a weeklong ‘deep dive’ into the topic of how the Army will employ robotics and autonomous systems (RAS) in a future operating environment using the Multi-Domain Battle (MDB) framework.

Mr. Nathan Fisher, Project Manager for Medical Robotics and Autonomous Systems with TATRC’s Operational Telemedicine Lab, has been selected the TATRC Employee of the Quarter for Q2.

Ms. Tee Dockery is a Cellular End User Device Software Engineer at TATRC, where she will be doing Android application development for the Operational Telemedicine Lab.