- ECBC Champion
Richard W. Decker III
Technical Director
Edgewood Chemical Biological Center
- Credit Where Credit is Due
A Lean Six Sigma team at Madigan Army Medical Center generates
more than $1 million in extra revenue in one year by improving
the coding process. Lessons from this project have been spread
throughout Madigan and are now reaching into other Army medical
facilities.
- Medical Vendor Day
A cooperative venture by the military service medical logistics
agencies located on Fort Detrick come together to assist the
services’ medical logistics agencies with strategic market analysis
of products and technologies that may be applicable to austere
medical environments.
- View from the Hill
VA Retention and Recruitment
Health care providers are the backbone of the VA system. Yet today,
the department faces a shortage of these professionals. Around the
country, too many facilities are understaffed, at the cost of services
for veterans.
- Combat Casualty Care on the Technology Curve
The implementation of a theater trauma system demonstrated
numerous opportunities to improve the outcome of soldiers
wounded on the battlefield. Medical equipment standardization in a
maturing combat theater is essential.
By Lieutenant Colonel Bruce C. Syvinski and Chief Warrant Officer,
- Iraq Theater Hospital
Among all of the military treatment facilities in Iraq, the Iraqi
Theater Hospital at Balad is perhaps at the small part of the
funnel—providing care and the portal to higher levels of care
—an interview with Colonel (Dr.) Patrick Storms.
- Robotic Therapy
A U.S. Army small business innovation research is looking for an
integrated physical therapy/rehabilitation robotic system to develop
a reconfigurable medical robotic system for physical therapy and
rehabilitation to enhance health care capabilities with advanced
system functionality, telepresence and teleconsultation.
- Mid-Atlantic Telerad, Inc.
James Whittaker
President
