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U.S. Army Joint Telemedicine Network Eyed for Mental Health Services
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As reported Next.Gov ... Lt. Gen. Eric Schoomaker, the Army surgeon general, wants to use technology to help deployed soldiers deal with combat stress, the invisible wound of war, and the team that developed the Army's Joint Telemedicine Network in Afghanistan and Iraq believes it has the system to do the job.
The Army must find ways to use technology to deliver diagnostic and therapeutic resources to its soldiers in remote locations to manage behavioral health problems, Schoomaker said at a Nov. 13 news briefing on the mental health of deployed troops.
Maj. Dan Bridon, director of command, control and communications for the 30th Theater Medical Command at Bagram Air Force Base in Afghanistan, told Nextgov that he already has tested the Joint Telemedicine Network for remote psychological consultation services.
The Army developed the network to transmit broadband digital X-ray images for sick or injured soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan to the Landstuhl Army Medical Center in Germany and stateside hospitals. At some locations, the team also installed videoconferencing equipment developed by the technology company Tandberg ASA of Norway. Bridon said videoconferencing could be the key component of remote behavioral health services...Retired Army Lt. Col. Alfred Hamilton, who helped develop the Joint Telemedicine Network, said the system provides the framework for future telemental health projects...
... The Joint Telemedicine Network can help Army mental health providers overcome the "tyranny of distance," ... As winter starts to grip the country and make travel by air or road more difficult, it makes sense to use technology to connect soldiers and mental health care providers...
Read on at: http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20091124_1058.php?oref=topstory
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As reported Next.Gov ... Lt. Gen. Eric Schoomaker, the Army surgeon general, wants to use technology to help deployed soldiers deal with combat stress, the invisible wound of war, and the team that developed the Army's Joint Telemedicine Network in Afghanistan and Iraq believes it has the system to do the job.
The Army must find ways to use technology to deliver diagnostic and therapeutic resources to its soldiers in remote locations to manage behavioral health problems, Schoomaker said at a Nov. 13 news briefing on the mental health of deployed troops.
Maj. Dan Bridon, director of command, control and communications for the 30th Theater Medical Command at Bagram Air Force Base in Afghanistan, told Nextgov that he already has tested the Joint Telemedicine Network for remote psychological consultation services.
The Army developed the network to transmit broadband digital X-ray images for sick or injured soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan to the Landstuhl Army Medical Center in Germany and stateside hospitals. At some locations, the team also installed videoconferencing equipment developed by the technology company Tandberg ASA of Norway. Bridon said videoconferencing could be the key component of remote behavioral health services...Retired Army Lt. Col. Alfred Hamilton, who helped develop the Joint Telemedicine Network, said the system provides the framework for future telemental health projects...
... The Joint Telemedicine Network can help Army mental health providers overcome the "tyranny of distance," ... As winter starts to grip the country and make travel by air or road more difficult, it makes sense to use technology to connect soldiers and mental health care providers...
Read on at: http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20091124_1058.php?oref=topstory
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