The Medical Communications for Combat Casualty Care (MC4) program integrates and fields the Army’s capability to digitally capture medical treatment data in operational environments, enhancing the continuity of care, and enabling a comprehensive lifelong electronic medical record for Service members. MC4 contains multiple systems within one system including medical software packages fielded to operational medical forces worldwide. The system is comprised of joint software, commercial, and government products including Theater Medical Information Program-Joint (TMIP-J) and Armed Forces Health Longitudinal Technology Application for the Theatre (AHLTA-T) applications provided by Defense Health Clinical Systems (DHCS). The TMIP-J applications
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It offers an intuitive, graphical user interface designed by military providers to support clinical workflow. It leverages structured documentation to maintain integrity of patient data and optimize data standardization. One has the ability to utilize templates to simplify workflow. You can access EMR 24 hours, 7 days a week. It eliminates health record legibility issues between healthcare professionals. One may produce population health and wellness reports. You can ensure costly tests, labs, and scans are not lost and needlessly duplicated. Interoperability ensures records can be accessed at any Medical Treatment Facility (MTF) worldwide. The security systems surrounding it prevent unauthorized access and protects from loss due to natural or man-made disasters. A problem with AHLTA is that many service member’s data is not captured and recorded therefore lost, when the patient is referred to outside or civilian providers for care. The care from civilian providers could be captured and incorporated into AHLTA from Tricare via billing codes and records, but it is not. Almost all health data recordings are missing from AHLTA once a referral to an outside provider is made. This is a huge data gap in patient records and a flaw with
It offers an intuitive, graphical user interface designed by military providers to support clinical workflow. It leverages structured documentation to maintain integrity of patient data and optimize data standardization. One has the ability to utilize templates to simplify workflow. You can access EMR 24 hours, 7 days a week. It eliminates health record legibility issues between healthcare professionals. One may produce population health and wellness reports. You can ensure costly tests, labs, and scans are not lost and needlessly duplicated. Interoperability ensures records can be accessed at any Medical Treatment Facility (MTF) worldwide. The security systems surrounding it prevent unauthorized access and protects from loss due to natural or man-made disasters. A problem with AHLTA is that many service member’s data is not captured and recorded therefore lost, when the patient is referred to outside or civilian providers for care. The care from civilian providers could be captured and incorporated into AHLTA from Tricare via billing codes and records, but it is not. Almost all health data recordings are missing from AHLTA once a referral to an outside provider is made. This is a huge data gap in patient records and a flaw with