Download or read book Joint Medical Command written by Darwin D. Kumpula and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Army is transforming into a modular expeditionary force while at war. Our uniformed medical professionals are doing wonderful work of saving lives and helping rehabilitate our most valuable asset - Soldiers. However, our ability to do this in the future may be in jeopardy if we do not transform as swiftly as the warfighters. The U.S. military environment is swiftly moving toward joint interoperability and joint interdependability. The three service medical departments of the Army, Navy, and Air Force collaborate on issues, but it is a long process centered on their specific service interests. This limited collaboration must be changed to ensure the Soldiers on future battlefields are assured lifesaving care. Presently, each service independently constructs a force to provide medical support. It is in the Army's best interest to structure its assets with the other services for interoperability and interdependence. The Joint Medical Command will reduce redundancies, conserve resources, and implement efficient collaboration among the services. This jointness has been proposed many times since World War II. The time has come to make this commitment for the future of medical health services in the DoD, thereby ensuring superior medical support to the next generation of Soldiers.
Download or read book Implementation of Joint Military Medical Command written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Military Personnel and Compensation Subcommittee and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Joint Medical Command and Transformation written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper examines the establishment of a Joint Medical Command. It provides some brief historical notes. It discusses the readiness mission and interrelated benefits mission. It relates the advantages to the operational commander of transforming the Medical Health System to a joint command from the perspective of the principles of war. The paper notes previous objections raised and recommends establishment of a Joint Medical Command with individual Service components along the lines of USSOCOM. A further recommendation is, in order to meet growing asymmetric threats, greater reliance should be placed on military medicine as opposed to civilian contractors.
Download or read book US Army Physician Assistant Handbook written by and published by . This book was released on 2018-02 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Unified Medical Command written by Larry J. Godfrey and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Military Medicine's early organizational roots came from a British model. During the Civil War military medical services reorganized to support large land forces in heavy combat. The pattern developed during that period remains, with minor adjustments for improved technology, the organizational model for today's medical force. This pattern is based on service specific, separate medical departments with limited interoperability. A transformation is underway that is converting much of the force structure into an interoperable joint force. As they are currently organized, the military medical services cannot efficiently support a joint force. To solve this problem, all three service medical departments should be reorganized under a single Unified Medical Command that retains the individual service medical departments as subordinate component medical commands. Such a structure will maximize efficiency, eliminate unnecessary redundancy, conserve limited resources and respond to the needs of a joint force better than the current structure.
Download or read book Defense health Care DOD Needs to Address the Expected Benefits Costs and Risks for Its newly Approved Medical Command Structure written by United States. Government Accountability Office and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Joint Medical Command Is It Needed to Enhance Medical Interoperability in the Modern Warfight written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the entire Department of Defense continues to transform in the midst of a global war on terrorism, all of the Services continue to promulgate ways and means to become more expeditionary and modular in their approach to warfighting. In order to maintain relevancy, so must the service Medical Departments also find ways to enhance their benefit to the Joint Force Commander. In an era of budgetary constraints, it is apparent that the time has come to look at just how significant the formulation of a Joint Medical Command would be to the operational aspect of warfare. There have been many recent episodes of jointness in medical support on the battlefield, but nothing in doctrine supports the premise, and current service parochialisms often stand in the way of furthering this concept. This paper will look at advantages and disadvantages of joint medical support using key operational functions and the six joint health service support principles as a framework for analysis and conclusion. Many have written about benefits to peacetime healthcare, yet little exists in ways of analyzing this concept with respect to the warfighter from a joint support perspective.
Download or read book A Unified Medical Command written by Larry J. Godfrey and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Military Medicine's early organizational roots came from a British model. During the Civil War military medical services reorganized to support large land forces in heavy combat. The pattern developed during that period remains, with minor adjustments for improved technology, the organizational model for today's medical force. This pattern is based on service specific, separate medical departments with limited interoperability. A transformation is underway that is converting much of the force structure into an interoperable joint force. As they are currently organized, the military medical services cannot efficiently support a joint force. To solve this problem, all three service medical departments should be reorganized under a single Unified Medical Command that retains the individual service medical departments as subordinate component medical commands. Such a structure will maximize efficiency, eliminate unnecessary redundancy, conserve limited resources and respond to the needs of a joint force better than the current structure.
Download or read book Beyond Joint Medical Training written by Darlene A. McCurdy and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The military services are responsible to recruit, train, equip and sustain their forces. For decades the Department of Defense (DOD) has received pressure to consolidate medical departments and therefore, DOD reciprocates that challenge to the uniformed services to create a single medical command. The Army, Navy and Air Force have always justified separate medical branches, by staunchly stating that war-time requirements demand unique medical skill sets for Soldiers, Seamen and Airmen. However, current combat environments have blurred the lines between distinctions of medical care. Medics and physicians from all military services work side by side to save lives and return warriors to duty. The Military Health System (MHS) is responsible for health care delivery in military hospitals and routinely use joint services health care providers. In 2005, Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) established that, all military medical training sites for enlisted members will consolidate at Fort Sam Houston, Texas. Now is the perfect time to design, create, resource and mandate real JOINT medical training for our enlisted members. Military medical education can embrace process efficiencies to establish effective and realistic joint medical training.
Download or read book The Medals of the United States Army Medical Department and Medals Honoring Army Medical Officers written by Edgar Erskine Hume and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Joint Medical Command Boon Or Bane for the Supported CINC written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proposals supporting the desirability of a Department of Defense unified Medical Command are not new. Their focus, however, has not been on its validity in relation to its impact on the Geographic Commands, but on the individual Services, and the Department of Defense as a whole. This paper argues that the establishment of a Department of Defense Joint Medical Command would be a boon to the Geographic Commander in Chief (CINC) as well as the Joint Task Force Commander (JTFC). Specific instances where this is demonstrated will be proffered. A detailed description of the organizational and force structure of such a command will not be advanced as that is beyond the scope of this study.
Download or read book Tri service Medical Transformation written by Dennis D. Doyle and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The current U.S. military medical service structure is redundant and inefficient. Each service trains, equips and organizes its own medical force under the direction of a Surgeon General and medical department (the Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery - BUMED, the Army Medical Command - USAMEDCOM, and the Air Force Medical Service - AFMS). Yet all these medical departments are interwoven in and subordinate to the Defense Health Program (DHP) and its peacetime health care delivery system - TRICARE. This paper assesses the current Department of Defense (DOD) medical support organization and proposes the development of a unified medical command (USMEDCOM) that will provide health care across the services more efficiently through the common training, organizing and equipping of a joint medical force.
Download or read book Tri Service Medical Transformation Time for a Unified Military Medical Command USMEDCOM written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The current U.S. military medical service structure is redundant and inefficient. Each service trains, equips and organizes its own medical force under the direction of a Surgeon General and medical department (the Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery - BUMED, the Army Medical Command - USAMEDCOM, and the Air Force Medical Service - AFMS). Yet all these medical departments are interwoven in and subordinate to the Defense Health Program (DHP) and its peacetime health care delivery system - TRICARE. This paper assesses the current Department of Defense (DOD) medical support organization and proposes the development of a unified medical command (USMEDOOM) that will provide health care across the services more efficiently through the common training, organizing and equipping of a joint medical force.
Download or read book Military Personnel written by Brenda S. Farrell and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a print on demand edition of a hard to find publication. Military medical personnel, who are essential to maintaining one of the largest and most complex health systems in the nation, are in great demand due to the need to treat injured or ill servicemembers, and advances in technology that require specialized personnel. To determine how well the Department of Defense and the services are developing their medical and dental personnel requirements, this report evaluated: (1) the extent to which the services have incorporated cross-service collaboration in their medical personnel requirement processes; and (2) the service-specific processes for determining their requirements for military and civilian medical personnel. Includes recommendations. Charts and tables.
Download or read book Military Personnel written by Brenda S. Farrell and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2011-06 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For ongoing operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, military medical personnel are among the first to arrive and the last to leave. Sustained U.S. involvement in these operations has placed stresses on the Department of Defense's (DoD) medical personnel. As the U.S. military role in Iraq and Afghanistan changes, the Army must adapt the number and mix of medical personnel it deploys. This report evaluated the extent to which: (1) DoD has assessed its need for medical personnel in theater to support ongoing operations; (2) the Army has adapted the composition and use of medical units to provide advanced medical care; and (3) the Army fills medical personnel gaps that arise in theater. Illus. This is a print on demand report.
Download or read book Defense Health Care written by United States Government Accountability Office and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-09-13 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: operates one of the largest and most complex health systems in the nation and has a dual health care mission-readiness and benefits. The readiness mission provides medical services and support to the armed forces during military operations. The benefits mission provides health care to over 9 million eligible beneficiaries, including active duty personnel, retirees, and dependents worldwide. Past GAO and other reports have recommended changes to the military health system (MHS) structure. GAO was asked to (1) describe the options for structuring a unified medical command recommended in recent studies by DOD and other organizations and (2) assess the extent to which DOD has identified the potential impact these options would have on the current MHS. GAO analyzed studies and reports prepared by DOD's Joint/Unified Medical Command Working Group, the Defense Business Board, and the Center for Naval Analyses, and interviewed department officials.
Download or read book Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
