MITRE https://www.mitre.org is working with the U.S. Army Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center’s (TATRC) https://www.tatrc.org on the Technology in Disaster Environments (TiDE) program to determine ways to bring telemedicine to frontline and remote locations.
The goal is to create remotely control infusion pumps, ventilators, and other vital devices to use in areas with insufficient local support. By connecting the equipment to remote operators in field hospitals and disaster sites, patients could more efficiently be treated since the systems could connect and communicate.
The TiDE program which includes the National Emergency Tele-Critical Care Network (NETCCN) project, manages almost a dozen government contractors aimed at creating a remote control emergency room in an austere environment. Unlike other government contracting projects where each step is managed individually and sequentially, these contracts are to be managed simultaneous and overlapping.
TATRC turned to MITRE for expertise to help manage the process to develop remote control capabilities and to integrate the capabilities with NETCCN through the Device Interoperability and Autonomy Coordinating Center (DIACC).
The DIACC is a collaboration among public and private entities focused on delivering products designed to work in a complete ecosystem. The goal is to develop a single operating system comprised of different devices at different hospitals from different manufacturers and operators.