Wednesday Health.mil News Round-Up: MHS chief says we're going to "skate where the puck will be" in anticipating challenges; DoD Scientists Work Globally to Improve Disease Diagnostics; and Mobile app to diagnose head injuries scores FDA clearance

Military Health System Looks to be Ready for Challenges of Changing World
Dec. 23, 2014

Dr. Jonathan Woodson, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs, tells attendees of a recent Brookings Institition event that the Military Health System's goal is to "skate where the puck will be," meaning he wants his organization to anticipate the challenges of a changing world.

Read more at: www.health.mil/News/Articles/2014/12/23/Military-Health-System-Looks-to-be-Ready-for-Challenges-of-Changing-World

DoD Scientists Work Globally to Improve Disease Diagnostics
Dec. 22, 2014

At the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases here, scientists who develop and refine diagnostics do more than work in a laboratory. Some take their disease-identifying tools into the field and try them out on a virus’s home turf.

Read more at: www.health.mil/News/Articles/2014/12/22/DoD-Scientists-Work-Globally-to-Improve-Disease-Diagnostics

Mobile app to diagnose head injuries scores FDA clearance
Dec. 22, 2014

The new Defense Automated Neurobehavioral Assessment is a mobile phone-based application designed to help medical providers identify cases of traumatic brain injury in almost any setting, which may help clinicians diagnose a patient in as little as five minutes.

Read more at: www.health.mil/News/Articles/2014/12/22/Mobile-app-to-diagnose-head-injuries-scores-FDA-clearance