Developing Technology for Operational Medicine

Joint operational medicine depends on the ability to deliver coordinated, high-quality clinical care across Services, coalition partners, and operational environments that are increasingly distributed, contested, and resource constrained. Effective clinical applications are essential to maintaining continuity of care, situational awareness, and medical decision superiority across the Joint Force.

This presentation highlights joint operational medicine clinical applications that support care delivery from point of injury through definitive treatment across Roles of Care. Drawing on operational use cases, it examines capabilities that enable prolonged field care, patient movement and tracking, teleconsultation, and medical command and control in degraded and denied environments. Emphasis is placed on interoperability across systems, integration with joint command structures, and support for joint casualty management and evacuation timelines.

The session also addresses human-centered design considerations that reduce cognitive burden for clinicians operating under stress, as well as acquisition and sustainment factors critical to joint implementation, including scalability, cybersecurity, and transition from prototype to operational capability.

Attendees will gain practical insight into how joint operational medicine clinical applications enhance integration, resilience, and clinical effectiveness across the Defense Health Enterprise and the Joint Force.