Digitizing Marine Corps Medical Records

摘要

After action assessments of the Gulf War revealed several medical information gaps. Commanders found it difficult to track the status and location of casualties evacuated from the battlefield to higher intra and extra theater echelons of medical care. Additionally, data regarding medical encounters with patients during the ground war was not preserved for fusion with individual service members medical records. Consequently, as cases of Gulf War Illness arose, health care providers had no empirical data to which they could turn in order to identify potential causes. Because of numerous Congressional and Presidential mandates directing the Department of Defense (DoD) to implement comprehensive digital medical records for service members and medical tracking systems for deployed forces, the DoD Military Health System established the Theater Medical Information Program (TMIP) acquisition program.