Soldiers Test Army's Newest Transport Telemedicine Technology

FORT BRAGG, N.C. -- Army Medicine is developing a technology to improve patient triage and communication during medical evacuations -- and looking for units willing to test the system.  The 44th Medical Brigade and Womack Army Medical Center at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, have already signed up to user test Medical Hands-free Unified Broadcast, or MEDHUB. MEDHUB leverages wearable sensors, accelerometers and other technology cleared by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to improve the communication flow between patients, medics and receiving field hospitals. Read more at United States Army   Military Technology in EMS   Many of the items in trauma bags (e.g., CAT tourniquet, Israeli bandage, etc.) were developed or adapted from military technology--the U.S. military as well as other military forces from around the world. Taking a cue from telemedicine technology used in some of today's progressive EMS systems and EDs, the U.S. military announced that they're testing a secure telemedicine technology that, according to U.S. Army Public Affiars, "autonomously collects, stores and transmits non-personally identifiable patient information from a device, such as a hand-held tablet, to the receiving field hospital via existing long-range Department of Defense communication systems. At the receiving hospital, the information sent from MEDHUB is displayed on a large screen so clinicians can see what is inbound, including the number of patients and their vi...
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