Mobile Medical Applications The Wireless Medical Enterprise

Telemedicine & Advanced Technology Research Center TATRC Cutting Edge Medical Technology TATRC Initiatives In Mobile Medical Applications G. Rufus Sessions, Ph.D. sessions@tatrc.org Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC) USAMRMC, Ft. Detrick, MD Telemedicine & Advanced Technology Research Center TATRC Cutting Edge Medical Technology U.S. ARMY MEDICAL RESEARCH & MATERIEL COMMAND MG Lester Martinez-Lopez, Commanding MEDICAL MATERIEL DEVELOPER Director, Advanced Technologies Colonel Jeffrey Roller, MC, USAF Director, Telemedicine & Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC) TATRC TATRC Wireless and Mobile Medical Enterprise Working Group (WMMEWG) • Inaugurated May 2000 • Develop and execute a TATRC-wide research program to provide wireless technologies to enhance point-of-care medical treatment in DOD environments. • WME Extended Working Group • "Untethered Medical Care for DOD -- Any Time, Any Place" TATRC MDAs Medical Digital Assistants Any small, portable and unobtrusive computing and/or telecommunications device that assists in the collection, retrieval or communication of data relevant to medical care (Sessions, 2000) TATRC WMMEWG Activities • What’s out there? – Market Survey – Technology watch – Literature Reviews • What is needed in the DoD? – Integrated Team Meeting July 2001 – www.tatrc.org “IRT: Wireless Medical Applications” • • • • Coordination of in-house wireless projects Coordination with other DoD activities Maintain Virtual Collaboration Portal Update TATRC Science & Technology Roadmap TATRC WME and Army Projects – DREAMS-Disaster Relief and Emergency Medical Services – Informatics Based Medical Emergency Decision Tools (IMED Tools) – Secure Telemedicine – US-Norway Telemedicine – Worcester Poly Inst • Real-Time Troop Physiological Status Monitoring • TATRC Initiatives • Congressionally Funded Research Projects – Clinical Needs Assessment and Human Factors, Point-of-Care Hand Held Digital Devices – Battlefield Medical Information System-Telemedicine (BMIST) – Field Deployable Digital Hospital (FDDMTF) – OSD/HA SBIRs (2 ea. Phase II) • Medical Communications for Combat Casualty Care (MC4), First Responder • Walter Reed AMC Initiatives • Diabetes Home Monitoring • ObGyn, Nuerosurg, Pulmonary – Speech Capable Personal Digital Assistant • MEDCOM Telemed Initiatives TATRC WMEWG Communications and Virtual Collaboration • Open Web Site •www.tatrc.org/website_wme • Closed WebBoard • Newsgroup/WebBoard • Listserve • Archived Files, Docs TATRC WME WebBoard TATRC Literature Database TATRC PDA Specifications TATRC MDA Software Applications TATRC Glossary, Wireless Terms TATRC Challenges with MDAs and Mobile Computing • Security/ confidentiality • Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) • Lack of hospital/field experience with wireless real-time connections; new clinical practices • Designing appropriate architecture for MDAs – (Client/Server vs. Thin Client) – Integration of Desk, Laptops, Tablets, HandHelds • Speed to obtain information, bandwidth – Content Pull vrs. Push • Extended battery life From Dr. Kevin Johnson/Sessions TATRC Coming Attractions • Voice Dictation, Natural Language Processing • Heads Up Displays • WIRELESS – Remote Wireless Sensors – Bluetooth-type devices – Auto Networking • Open, scalable systems From Dr. David Blair/Sessions Telemedicine & Advanced Technology Research Center TATRC Cutting Edge Medical Technology Contact: G. Rufus Sessions Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center U.S. Army Medical Research And Materiel Command Ft. Detrick, MD USA sessions@tatrc.org 301-619-4011