“A new office within the Army, the Virtual Health Research Task Area, has been charged with looking at how virtual health capabilities are advancing and how those technologies can be deployed on the battlefield.”
“The new research area sits under the Medical Simulation and Information Sciences Research Program’s Medical Assist Support Technologies function was funded in the 2019 and is “expected to facilitate cutting edge, next-generation scientific studies to promote significant innovation in the applied, state-of-the art research in virtual health technologies and approaches … to dramatically advance direct and indirect support for point of injury trauma care and prolonged field outcomes,” according to a notice posted to FedBizOpps last week…”
“To prepare for this reality, the Army is looking for solutions that mix “traditional point of injury health care delivery” with virtual health technologies…” Read the full article here.
Source: The Army Wants Virtual Health Tech That Works Under Any Conditions – By Aaron Boyd, February 19, 2019. Nextgov.
