Medical Planners' Toolkit Demonstration

Effective military medical planning relies on four interrelated capabilities: (1) generating daily casualty estimates for a scenario, (2) accurately estimating the distribution of specific illnesses and injuries that comprise a casualty population, (3) estimating the medical resources necessary to support an operation’s theater hospitalization requirements, and (4) estimating the consumption of Class VIII medical supplies. The Medical Planners’ Toolkit (MPTk) is an accredited Department of Defense medical planning and programming tool, developed by the Naval Health Research Center, that enables medical planners to perform each of these functions in an integrated environment.
This presentation will feature a live demonstration of the software to showcase its capabilities in support of military medical planning and analysis. It will highlight a typical workflow, perform each of the above functions for a single notional operation, and review outputs compatible with other planning and analysis tools. Recent MPTk improvements and planned future enhancements will also be discussed.  
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Additional Information: This work was supported by the Joint Operational Medicine Information Systems under work unit no. N1214.