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Information Science and Technology: A New Paradigm in Military Medical Research

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The escalating pace of technologies such as computers and mobile communications systems, along with major advances in neurobiology, increases opportunities for military medical problem solving. This convergence of information technology with medicine was new as a core funded program in military medical research, but foundational research had been conducted by the Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC) through special congressional interest projects, small business innovative research programs (SBIRs), and other special funding programs in the Department of Defense (DoD) totaling $500 M/year for more than a decade before its inception. Five main thrust areas formed the new funded program supported by the Joint Program Committee 1 (JPC1) to transform military health care to a safer, will-predictive, preventative, evidence-based, and participatory system. These focus areas included medical simulation and training, mobile health (m-Health), open electronic health record and medical systems interoperability, computational biology and predictive models, and knowledge engineering. This modest investment in transformational research stands to produce huge benefits in cost savings in military medicine through improved efficiencies provided with everyday technologies.

Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?

Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

T.S. Eliot, The Rock, 1934 [1]

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The authors acknowledge the helpful suggestions for this manuscript received from Betty Levine MS, Francis McVeigh OD, Dave Williams, Tom Bigott, and Gary Gilbert PhD. Since the preparation of this manuscript, an independent JPC1 office and infrastructure layer has been established, separating the programming, planning, and budgeting activities from the scientific and technical execution responsibilities for this research program.

This manuscript was originally prepared, reviewed, and cleared for a special issue of Military Medicine in 2012 that never materialized. KEF wrote the paper when he was the Chair of the Joint Programmatic Committee (JPC1) and Director of the Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC); TBT and SS also worked for TATRC and they contributed important concepts captured herein and in the initially funded JPC1 program in their capacities as JPC1 subgroup Chairs for the Med Sim Technical Working Group and Health IT Technical Working Group, respectively.

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Friedl, K.E., Talbot, T.B., Steffensen, S. (2019). Information Science and Technology: A New Paradigm in Military Medical Research. In: Daim, T., Dabić, M., Başoğlu, N., Lavoie, J.R., Galli, B.J. (eds) R&D Management in the Knowledge Era. Innovation, Technology, and Knowledge Management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15409-7_1

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