By Gemma Simpson on 2 August 2007 11:15
When being treated on the field, military personnel will each have an individual memory stick loaded with their health records as a back-up until they reach a military medical or NHS facility.
The medical staff on the field can also input information about any treatment a patient may receive by putting the memory stick into a PDA or wrist-worn PDA system (pictured), which they can wear while treating a patient and inputting medical information.
The memory stick is still under development but the MoD envisages it will be incorporated into a soldier's dog-tag to make sure it doesn't get lost.
Robert Baxter, deputy chief of defence staff at the MoD, said: "The DMICP gives us the chance to have information that is timely, accurate and relevant".
Photo credit: Gemma Simpson
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1. Doug Schulek-Miller
Ah, yes.... soon the paperless office, the long-awaited solution to the legal profession's love affair with weighty tomes and their deathless prose. MD's are not far behind in that race, IF anyone can read what they write. At least if we can get them onto a keyboard we'll discover how really deficient in English language skills they might be.