Assisted Informatics and Decisions for Medics (AID-Medic)
Navy SBIR FY2015.1


Sol No.: Navy SBIR FY2015.1
Topic No.: N151-069
Topic Title: Assisted Informatics and Decisions for Medics (AID-Medic)
Proposal No.: N151-069-0034
Firm: Perceptronics Solutions, Inc.
3527 Beverly Glen Blvd.
Sherman Oaks, California 91423
Contact: Gershon Weltman
Phone: (818) 788-1025
Web Site: www.percsolutions.net
Abstract: TBDThis proposal is for the Assisted Informatics and Decisions for Medics (AID-Medic) system. AID-Medic is an integrated mobile application intended as part of the ONR military Medical Informatics Decision Assistance and Support (MIDAS) program, and is directed toward alleviating the problem of information overload for Navy hospital corpsman assigned to Marine Corps units. The typical information overload for the hospital corpsman has two main components: (1) Far too much information regarding appropriate patient care provision; and (2) Increasing amounts of patient-specific data scattered across a wide range of care levels, caregivers, and care facility locations. Hospital corpsmen working with the Marine Corps' operating forces will benefit greatly from a technology that would help prevent and mitigate medical information overload in their care of patients. Our plan for providing this technology is to develop AID-Medic as a new app for mobile, handheld devices that will be portable enough for use in all corpsman situations, and will include comprehensive access to information, procedural guidance and inter-provider communication. We will achieve this by integrating advanced AI techniques with WikEM, an established web application that contains a comprehensive database of emergency medical information and currently has over100,000 users worldwide, many of them military personnel.
Benefits: AID-Medic has a unique opportunity to address a key need of hospital corpsmen working with the US Marine Corps operating forces, while generating a solution to the one of the main challenges of modern medicine: massive health information overload and sporadic decision support. By focusing first on a solution for battlefield providers caring for US troops, AID-Medic will be able to leverage this unique perspective to provide additional solutions during civilian medical emergencies and large-scale disasters. AID-Medic will be the go-to, trusted information resource and decision-support tool for hospital corpsmen. With respect to transition, the project group has extensive connections with military contacts such as the Naval Center for Combat and Operational Stress Control (NCCOSC); the Navy's BUMED sponsored health and health personnel training programs, Marine Corps activities at Camp Pendleton; and the Naval Medical Center San Diego hospital corpsmen training programs. Additionally, in the civil and commercial market the team has contacts with EMS agencies including Los Angeles County EMS agency, one of the largest EMS systems in the nation and known worldwide as a leader in the field of pre-hospital care. Additionally, with a well-established community and application for emergency medical practitioners in military, medical and emergency response markets, WikEM can serve as a built-in marketing vehicle revenue generator via in-app purchase of advanced AID-Medic features and capabilities

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