Medical Communications for Combat Casualty Care (MC4) integrates, fields and supports a comprehensive medical information system, enabling lifelong electronic medical records, streamlined medical logistics and enhanced situational awareness for Army operational forces. By accomplishing this mission, MC4 is providing the Army’s solution to presidential and congressional objectives, set forth by Title 10 in 1997, which called for a medical tracking system for all deployed Service members.
MC4 is a ruggedized system-of-systems containing medical software packages fielded to operational medical forces worldwide. Comprised of joint software, commercial and government-off-the-shelf products, MC4 provides the tools needed to digitally record and transfer critical medical data from the foxhole to medical treatment facilities worldwide.
Deployable medical forces use the MC4 system to gain quick, accurate access to patient histories and forward casualty resuscitation information, as well as to deliver health care services remotely through MC4 telehealth capabilities. The system also provides units with automated tools facilitating patient and item tracking, blood management, medical reporting and medical logistical support. Combatant commanders use the MC4 system to access medical surveillance information, resulting in enhanced medical situational awareness.
Most importantly, MC4 is helping deployed Service members. By equipping deployed medical units with automated resources, MC4 helps ensure Service members have a secure, accessible, lifelong electronic medical record, which results in better informed health care providers and easier access to VA medical benefits.
With more than 10 years of experience managing the DOD’s first battlefield medical recording system, MC4 remains the most widely-used, comprehensive information management medical system on the battlefield. MC4's vision is to be the premier enabler for improved tactical health care and better decision making through the power of information technology.
The Army's Program Executive Office, Enterprise Information Systems (PEO EIS), Fort Belvoir, Va., oversees the MC4 Product Management Office headquartered at Fort Detrick, Md.