MIDAS (Medical Informatics Decision Assistance and Support) Navy SBIR FY2015.1 Sol No.: Navy SBIR FY2015.1 Topic No.: N151-069 Topic Title: MIDAS (Medical Informatics Decision Assistance and Support) Proposal No.: N151-069-0575 Firm: Milcord LLC 303 Wyman Street Suite 300 Waltham, Massachusetts 02451-1208 Contact: Tim Clark Phone: (781) 839-7138 Web Site: www.milcord.com Abstract: The Defense Healthcare Management System Modernization (DHMSM) effort will bring about a new era in the Department's implementation of Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) and advanced health care delivery approaches. The advent of EMRs has provided better access into the workings of health care systems, but has not necessarily empowered patients and practitioners with better decision making ability. Simply providing access to form-based records presents patients and doctors with limited understanding of past, current, and future conditions that can influence treatment plans or impact the effectiveness of the care provided. EMRs brings about three exciting opportunities for better health management: communication through mobile devices, dynamic treatment plans, and analytics. On mobile devices, the opportunity is provide two-way, real-time communication that can lead to better decisions, both by patients and practitioners. On treatment plans, the opportunity is the evaluation of status updates and clinical notes against digitized treatment plans instead of the current treatment plans buried in paper documents. On analytics, the harvesting of lessons learned from frequent user updates and evaluation in dynamic plans against expected objectives for the benefit of practitioners and patients. These opportunities represent the focus areas of Milcord's Medical Informatics Decision Assistance and Support capability. Benefits: With more than 6 million veterans and 9 million active-duty service members, the potential to improve patient-practitioner treatment efficiency and satisfaction presents an exciting opportunity. As the application is developed, the app could also integrate with existing or planned patient self-help applications, diagnoses checkers, and tele-health applications in the Defense Healthcare Management System Modernization, U.S. Army m-Care platform or DHA Tricare On Line Portal. With regards to the private healthcare technology market, the industry is expected to grow 20% each year, fueled in part by new laws mandating more up-to-date healthcare recordkeeping. It is estimated the healthcare IT industry spends more than $40 billion a year, providing many opportunities to commercialize our MIDAS capability to private medical facilities. Increasing use of smartphones, wearables, and other mobile technology is another main driver of growth. A recent study reported that more than 70% of physicians use a smartphone and more than 20% use a tablet. The forecast for the Global Healthcare IT market is that will grow at a CAGR of 5.7% over the period 2013-2018. Return