We’ve been reviewing our policies in Afghanistan over the past few months looking
for ways to improve our medical business practices.
It has been challenging finding a way to ensure patient encounters are being properly closed
so the information that has been obtained becomes part of the Soldier’s lifelong
electronic medical record (EMR). As part of our solution, we recently created an open encounters report for Afghanistan...
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Source: Army Magazine
Just three weeks into his fifth deployment to Afghanistan in 2004, Sgt. Falcon Bonsell, a forward
observer with the 2nd Ranger Battalion, found himself on foot patrol. It seemed like a routine
August day until his unit was ambushed near Forward Operating Base Tillman.
Bonsell and four
fellow Soldiers sustained injuries from mortars and direct rifle fire. Little did he know at the
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FORT DETRICK, Md. – Army medical logistics processes are receiving long-awaited
improvements with the Defense Medical Logistics Standard Support (DMLSS) 3.1.2
Prime Vendor Generation IV app upgrade.
The new software will reduce errors, improve
customer service and make processing, ordering and delivery of supplies more efficient
through enhanced capabilities for medical logisticians.
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A new module in the Theater Medical Data Store (TMDS) has been released in
January 2011 to assist with the tracking and monitoring of blood supply in theater.
The blood module is a web-based database that manages all blood products in the operational environment outside of
existing garrison programs. Blood products scanned into the system can be tracked throughout the
inventory process to a final disposition
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