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Innovation

The Office of Strategy Management aims to redefine the pace of innovation in service, process, and technology innovation by empowering individuals, sharing best practices, and collaborating with strategic partners. The Office advances Health and Readiness across the full spectrum of military operations in combat, community, and global environments.

OSM defines innovation as accelerating the adoption of transformational initiatives, so we can advance a “medically ready force and a ready medical force.”

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Why Innovation?

Exponential change is reshaping today’s healthcare environment and the continued viability of the MHS depends on its ability to innovate. Incremental improvements are no longer enough to keep pace with change. Embracing innovation allows the MHS to build the necessary partnerships, processes, and technologies to serve warfighters and their families better.

What's New in Military Medicine?

The Military Health System (MHS) is focused on continually finding innovative ways to protect, support, and advance the health and welfare of the Defense community. We remain on the cutting edge of medical practices and procedures, thus providing the best possible care for service members and beneficiaries. During the month of July, we will focus on the technological innovations in military medicine that have made the MHS a leader in healthcare delivery. 

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Army surgeon general predicts new tourniquet will save many lives

Article
8/23/2016
The U.S. Army Medical Materiel Agency is fielding a new junctional tourniquet designed to save Warfighters from bleeding to death on the battlefield. Junctional tourniquets are designed to stop the bleeding in the groin or armpit area where the Combat Application Tourniquet cannot be used. The junctional tourniquet is designed like a belt with air bladders that can be positioned in about 60 seconds – a crucial factor for combat medics who only have minutes to save a fellow Warfighter's life if he or she is hemorrhaging. (U.S. Army photo by Ellen Crown)

One of the latest advances in treating hemorrhaging on the battlefield is the "junctional tourniquet," which can be applied to wounds in ways not possible with conventional tourniquets

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Health Readiness, Innovation

Department of Defense Serum Repository

Infographic
8/3/2016
Infographic about the DoD Serum Repository

The Department of Defense Serum Repository is a longitudinal serum repository that serves as a cental archive of sera drawn from Service members for medical surveillance purposes.

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Armed Forces Health Surveillance Branch, DoD Serum Repository, Innovation

A driven competitor, one Marine overcame setbacks to become medal-winning athlete

Article
7/27/2016
Staff Sergeant Anthony Mannino Jr. competed in the cycling event during the 2016 Warrior Games in West Point, New York. By the end of this year’s competition, he came home with silver medals in three events: wheelchair basketball, shot put and discus. (U.S. Marine Corps Photo by Patrick Onofre/Released)

After struggling with a TBI for years, Staff Sgt. Anthony Mannino Jr. credits his therapy sessions at NICoE in helping him focus on training for the 2016 Warrior Games.

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Warrior Care, Traumatic Brain Injury, Innovation

Hidden gem strengthens cutting-edge DoD research

Article
7/27/2016
Inventory technician Marcus Gunther works inside one of the state-of-the-art freezers that house more than 60 million serum specimens collected from more than 10 million active duty and reserve service members in support of military medical surveillance. (Courtesy photo)

The DoD Serum Repository is the world’s largest repository of its kind, storing more than 60 million vials of blood serum from more than 10 million active duty and reserve service members

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Research and Innovation, Innovation, Medical Research and Development, Armed Forces Health Surveillance Branch, DoD Serum Repository

A good NAPP is key to better sleep

Article
7/25/2016
Air Force Senior Airman Karen Machado takes a nap before going to a deployed location.

A new smartphone app will soon help warfighters get the sleep they need

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Research and Innovation, Innovation, Sleep

Predicting contagiousness to limit the spread of disease

Article
7/12/2016
Following exposure to a pathogen, people may become infected, and soon after they may begin to spread disease to others. Some people become infected and also become sick with symptoms (red). Some people become infected and do not exhibit symptoms, but still spread disease (yellow). Some people do not become infected (blue).

Prometheus seeks to discover a minimal set of molecular biomarkers that would indicate, less than 24 hours after exposure to a pathogen, whether an individual will become contagious

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Research and Innovation, Innovation

Paratrooper medics use new oxygen equipment

Article
7/12/2016
Army Sgt. Thomas Wachter, a Paratrooper with the 82nd Airborne Division demonstrates new oxygen generation equipment to employees from the United States Army Medical Material Agency during a joint training exercise at Fort Bragg.

U.S. Army Medical Materiel Agency sent experts out into the field to get innovative ideas

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Health Readiness, Innovation

GMU researchers developing system to help ensure blood safety

Article
7/8/2016
The Armed Services Blood Bank Center at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., received a new state-of-the-art blood mobile May 5.

Researchers at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., are developing an automated validation and verification system to help ensure blood safety.

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Armed Services Blood Program, Health IT Research and Innovation Strategy, Innovation

Incoming DHA Research and Development director brings new perspective

Article
7/7/2016
Rear Adm. Colin Chinn, director of Research, Development & Acquisition, for the Defense Health Agency

Meet Navy Rear Adm. Colin Chinn as the director of Research, Development & Acquisition (RDA), for the Defense Health Agency.

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Research and Innovation, Innovation

Latest Army medical innovation to keep soldiers ready for the fight

Article
7/7/2016
Soldiers break down a portion of a Deployable Rapid Assembly Shelter during an exercise in Japan. A new tool is helping medical personnel make sure soldiers are ready to deploy long before they arrive at any processing lines. (Photo by Army Staff Sgt. Chanelcherie DeMello)

During Innovation Month, we take a look at a new tool the Army is using to make sure soldiers are good to go, long before they hit that deployment line.

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Innovation, Health Readiness

Advances in health information technology and Internet of Things changing health care delivery

Article
7/6/2016
Army Lt. Col. Mark Mellott, branch chief of the Defense Health Agency’s Health Information Technology Innovation and Advanced Technology Development Division, sees the Internet of Things as ‘the perfect storm’ when it comes to changing knowledge, attitudes and beliefs regarding how healthcare is administered to beneficiaries.

Last summer, Army Lt. Col. Mark Mellott discussed how the Internet of Things (IoT) has the potential to change the dynamic of health care. In many ways that potential has now become a reality.

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Health Readiness, Technology, Health IT Research and Innovation Strategy, Innovation

Army partners with MIT Lincoln Lab on voice analysis program to detect brain injury

Article
7/1/2016
Service members are at higher risk for TBI because their jobs are physically demanding and potentially dangerous, both in combat and training environments. However, not all blows or jolts to the head result in TBI. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Paige Behringer)

Researchers with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory are developing a computer algorithm to identify vocal indicators that could help diagnose mild traumatic brain injury or concussion

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Traumatic Brain Injury, Innovation

USAF Hospital Langley: First active duty hospital with 3-D laparoscopic capability

Article
7/1/2016
U.S. Air Force Capt. Stuart Winkler, left, 633rd Medical Operations Squadron obstetrician, uses a 3-D scope and glasses while performing a hysterectomy at Langley Air Force Base, Virginia. The 3-D technology is new in the operating rooms at Langley which gives surgeons accuracy, speed and precision during surgical tasks. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Ciara Gosier)

USAF Hospital Langley is the first active duty military hospital in the U.S. to have a 3-D laparoscopic camera

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Military Hospitals and Clinics, Innovation

Pathogen reduction technology funding approved, ASBP on the forefront of deployment

Article
6/27/2016
The Armed Services Blood Bank Center at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., received a new state-of-the-art blood mobile May 5.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has agreed to provide more than $48 million to fund pathogen reduction technologies

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Armed Services Blood Program, Zika Virus, Innovation

Scientists probe Traumatic Brain Injury effects at research lab

Article
5/20/2016
Sensors attached to a translucent model skull are used to measure explosive shock velocity and pressure at the Army Research Laboratory Weapons and Materials Research Directorate at Aberdeen Proving Ground in Aberdeen, Maryland. Data captured by the sensors are used to assist studies in traumatic brain injuries. (DoD photo by EJ Hersom)

The Army Research Laboratory’s specialized experiments offer repeatable parameters to attain more reliable data and to complement strides made by the Department of Veterans Affairs and the medical and academic communities

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Traumatic Brain Injury, Research and Innovation, Medical Research and Development, Innovation, Technology
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