About AMEDD - AMEDD Innovations Since Desert Storm

Medical Communications for Combat Casualty Care (MC4) develops, fields and supports a medical information management system for Army tactical medical forces, enabling a comprehensive, life-long electronic medical record for all service members, and enhancing medical situational awareness for operational commanders.

MC4 offers deployable medical units a wide range of integrated systems (software and hardware) that bridge the tactical and sustaining base Information Management and Information Technology health care systems.

MC4 performs systems engineering and integration with Theater Medical Information Program (TMIP) and other software developers to ensure compatibility between software applications and reliable hardware devices, such as ruggedized servers, printers, notebooks and portable handheld devices.

By utilizing this system, relevant medical data flows vertically throughout levels of health care and to joint medical databases. This enables tactical medical forces to electronically record health services rendered and facilitates theater-wide medical surveillance and trend analysis. The system also provides pertinent medical information horizontally into the Army Battle Command, Combat Service Support and Communications architecture. As a result, MC4 enables enhanced medical situational awareness for combatant commanders.

MC4 was first deployed for a contingency in 2002 to support Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) and continues to expand to meet Army priorities with enhanced functionalities. Headquartered at Fort Detrick, Md., MC4 is under the oversight of Program Executive Office Enterprise Information Systems (PEO EIS) at Fort Belvoir, Va.

For more information on MC4, visit http://www.mc4.army.mil.