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Exploration Medical System Demonstration ProjectA near-Earth Asteroid (NEA) mission will present significant new challenges including hazards to crew health created by exploring a beyond low earth orbit destination, traversing the terrain of asteroid surfaces, and the effects of variable gravity environments. Limited communications with ground-based personnel for diagnosis and consultation of medical events require increased crew autonomy when diagnosing conditions, creating treatment plans, and executing procedures. Scope: The Exploration Medical System Demonstration (EMSD) project will be a test bed on the International Space Station (ISS) to show an end-to-end medical system assisting the Crew Medical Officers (CMO) in optimizing medical care delivery and medical data management during a mission. NEA medical care challenges include resource and resupply constraints limiting the extent to which medical conditions can be treated, inability to evacuate to Earth during many mission phases, and rendering of medical care by a non-clinician. The system demonstrates the integration of medical technologies and medical informatics tools for managing evidence and decision making. Project Objectives: The objectives of the EMSD project are to: a) Reduce and possibly eliminate the time required for a crewmember and ground personnel to manage medical data from one application to another. b) Demonstrate crewmember's ability to access medical data/information via a software solution to assist/aid in the treatment of a medical condition. c) Develop a common data management architecture that can be ubiquitously used to automate repetitive data collection, management, and communications tasks for all crew health and life sciences activities. d) Develop a common data management architecture that allows for scalability, extensibility, and interoperability of data sources and data users. e) Lower total cost of ownership for development and sustainment of peripheral hardware and software that use EMSD for data management f) Provide better crew health via the reduction in crew errors, crew time, and ground time.
Document ID
20110016705
Acquisition Source
Johnson Space Center
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Chin, D. A. (Wyle Integrated Science and Engineering Group Houston, TX, United States)
McGrath, T. L. (NASA Johnson Space Center Houston, TX, United States)
Reyna, B. (NASA Johnson Space Center Houston, TX, United States)
Watkins, S. D. (Texas Univ. Medical Branch Houston, TX, United States)
Date Acquired
August 25, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 2011
Subject Category
Aerospace Medicine
Report/Patent Number
JSC-CN-24797
JSC-CN-25044
Meeting Information
Meeting: 2012 NASA Human Research Program Investigators'' Workshop
Location: Houston, TX
Country: United States
Start Date: February 14, 2012
End Date: February 16, 2012
Sponsors: NASA Headquarters, Aerospace Medical Association
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Public Use Permitted.

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