FAST TURNAROUND
THIS WON’T HURT A BIT
Medical personnel with the 44th Medical Brigade use mannequins to test MEDHUB in an operationally relevant environment at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. The system was developed to address the challenges medics face: They often treat multiple patients at one time and have limited bandwidth to contact hospitals and provide them with information about patients en route. (Photo by Ashley Force, USAMMDA Public Affairs)
Dawn Rosarius, a Senior Executive Service member and USAMRDC’s principal assistant for acquisition, exercises program management and acquisition oversight of the USAMRDC’s prod- uct development and procurement programs. Under her guidance, numerous military medical products within the USAMRDC are progressing successfully through the development pipeline.
“In many cases, I believe the USAMRDC already aligns to many of the AFC’s core principles, as well as the mission of the assistant secretary of the Army for acquisition, logistics and technology, to develop, acquire, field and sustain the world’s best equipment and services,” said Rosarius. “With some of our medical solutions, we certainly are agile and effective in delivering quality sustain- able solutions as efficiently as possible, to ensure we get the best product to our warfighters.”
Te Medical Hands-free Unified Broadcast (MEDHUB) system is a clear illustration of the AFC’s tenets being incorporated into
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the critical work of the Medical Research and Development Command. MEDHUB is a product within the U.S. Army Medi- cal Materiel Development Activity’s (USAMMDA) Warfighter Health, Performance and Evacuation Project Management Office. USAMMDA’s mission is developing and delivering quality medi- cal systems to protect, treat and sustain the health of service members worldwide. MEDHUB is an automated electronic medical documentation and communication system designed to improve the way medics and hospitals share patient informa- tion, such as vital signs, injuries and treatments, during medical evacuations.
FIRST, AN EARLY FAILURE Te Transport Telemedicine System program originated in 2013; its goal was bidirectional communications, also known as tele- monitoring. Te first, manually intensive system was tested in 2017 with senior Army flight medics. Te user feedback was definitive: “We cannot document while treating multiple
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