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Army Sergeant’s Inspiration Leads To Battlefield Medical System
ARMY MEDICAL RESEARCH AND MATERIEL COMMAND Media Source: Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer
 
About the Technology:
Click to View Full Size ImageArmy medic Sgt. Tommy Morris was frustrated as he sat on a rocky hillside in Macedonia in 1993. Faced with keeping track of medical information on his warfighters, keeping up his stock of supplies, and hauling around heavy medical texts, he kept thinking to himself, “There has to be an easier way.” On the battlefield, it is crucial for first responders to have current medical information at the point of care. Soldiers were getting injured or sick for various reasons, and none of that information was captured unless the service member received care at a combat support hospital. Thus, Sgt. Morris created the BMIST.

The BMIST is a point-of-care diagnostic tool for first responders. It captures basic data from a medical encounter. Medics put in the symptoms, and BMIST comes up with a treatment plan based on the user’s skill level.
 
Applications:   Military and Commercial Significance:
A wireless, handheld device, the BMIST can offer advice on diagnosis and treatment, standardize notes on care, fill out forms, order supplies, and provide volumes of medical reference material.

Last year, the Department of Defense approved BMIST as the main handheld system supporting military health surveillance missions. Currently there are 5,000 BMIST devices in use, including by brigades of Army Stryker armored combat vehicles in Iraq and the White House Medical Unit.		   Numerous companies have expressed interest in licensing the BMIST. “There are about five major front runners who we anticipate will give us maximum dissemination of this technology in both the military utilization and the civilian economy,” says Dr. Marvin Rogul, consultant to the Army Medical Research and Materiel Command.
 
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