DoD wants to create an interoperable field hospital platform to help medical staffs make informed decisions and improve survival rates of wounded war fighters
The Medical Technology Enterprise Consortium is seeking prototype projects to create an interoperable field hospital environment that will integrate existing Department of Defense tactical networks, the organization announced.
In addition to integrating with tactical networks, the new platform must integrate with medical devices via a Local Area Network within deployed Medical Treatment Facilities, according to the announcement.
“The overall objective of the interoperable Field Hospital (iFH) effort is to create a tactical local area medical network to seamlessly receive, capture, and process secure medical information within deployed medical treatment facilities,” the announcement states.
Future missions demand a tactical medical architecture that brings order to the complexities of the operating environment and provides operational commanders and medical staff with data to:
- make informed decisions,
- increase patient survivability, and
- decrease morbidity from wounds suffered in the battlespace.
The prototype developed under this upcoming RPP will fill these operational requirements by capturing data from field medical elements, Medical Evacuation (MEDEVAC) platforms, medical devices, patient monitors, and Medical Logistics (MEDLOG) databases in order to provide clinicians with the data required to make informed clinical decisions.
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