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DREAMS^TM Digital EMS
Disaster Relief & Emergency Medical Services

This image depicts 4 aspects of the DREAMS (Disaster Relief and Emergency Medical Services) Digital EMS project: a screenshot of the software user interface, a military HMMWV ambulance, a white civilian ambulance, and a dual-screen Physician cart.

A mobile telemedicine solution providing high quality video, audio and patient physiologic data in real-time from mobile remote ambulances, deployable systems, and portable kits to hospital physicians to enable earlier physician intervention, resulting in increased survivability and reduced morbidity.

Sponsor: U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command

Competencies: Medical Technology, Decision Support
Industries: Medical, Emergency Response, Training, Federal Agencies, Local & State of Texas

EM*ES Virtual
Emergency Management Exercise System – Virtual

Screenshot of the first-person Emergency Management Exercise System – Virtual (EM*ES Virtual) simulation-based virtual training system. The screen displays multiple fire personnel carrying a stretcher to retrieve an injured industry worker.

A simulation-based, virtual training system to support TEEX’s Industrial Incident Management and Incident Command training program. This system immerses trainees into highly realistic situations, provides opportunities to exercise management and response doctrine within situation-specific emergencies, and enables for a richer and more effective training experience for participants.

Sponsor: Texas A&M Extension Service

Competencies: Modeling & Simulation, Decision Support
Industries: Emergency Response, Training, Federal Agencies, Local & State of Texas

EM*ES
Emergency Management Exercise System

Screenshot of the Emergency Management Exercise System (EM*ES) in which a timeclock is displayed in the upper left corner, a tabbed menu across the top, and the remainder of the screen is a 2D map overlayed with various boundary lines and a plume model.

An exercise management system used to help train both civilian and military emergency response personnel in large-scale incident management and planning. Over 25,000 U.S. and international emergency responders have been trained in exercises ranging from the incident command post up to the state operations level.

Sponsor: Texas A&M Extension Service

Competencies: Modeling & Simulation, Decision Support
Industries: Emergency Response, Training, Federal Agencies, Local & State of Texas

Event-based Image Sensing

Supported edge and corner detection and analysis algorithms and visual modeling and rendering for a real-time 3D trajectory tracking and guidance system utilizing novel event-based image sensing for vehicle docking.

Sponsor: Private Industry Partner

Competencies: Modeling & Simulation, Data Fusion, Data Visualization, Data Analytics
Industries: Federal Agencies, National Security, Training

FAST-STAR
Fletcher Allen Specialized Telemedicine for Supporting Transfer And Rescue

Designed, developed, deployed, and supported a fleet of five digital ambulances for the Fletcher Allen Level 1 trauma center in Burlington, Vermont. Also fielded a standalone deployable wireless on-scene camera as well as portable “Grab & Go” cases to be used with ambulances outfitted with minimal pre-install equipment.

Sponsor: U.S. Department of Transportation

Competencies: Medical Technology, Decision Support
Industries: Medical, Emergency Response, Training, Federal Agencies, Local & State of Texas

LARA
Laboratory Animal Reporting Application

Screenshot of the Laboratory Animal Records Application (LARA) web application.

Designed, developed, and deployed a mobile Laboratory Animal Reporting Application (LARA) system for the restrictive Biosafety Level 3 biocontainment facilities within the Plum Island Animal Disease Center to increase efficiency of data management and improve data reliability and availability.

Sponsor: U.S. Department of Homeland Security – Science and Technology Directorate

Competencies: Medical Technology, Decision Support
Industries: Medical, Emergency Response, Training, Federal Agencies

MICE
Multi-Laboratory International Collaboration Environment

Screenshot of the Multi-Laboratory International Collaboration Environment (MICE) system in which 12 separate animal research and diagnostic sites are collaborating in animal necropsies, microscope slide analyses, and PCR results interpretation.

Evaluated, selected, installed, integrated and sustained a video conferencing system infrastructure within five state, university, and federal research, diagnostic, and biocontainment veterinary laboratories across the U.S., enabling live sharing of microscope imagery, animal necropsies, laboratory test results, instrumentation, and field clinical signs between researchers and technicians across geographic and biocontainment barriers.

Sponsor: U.S. Department of Homeland Security – Science and Technology Directorate

Competencies: Data Visualization, Decision Support
Industries: Medical, Emergency Response, Training, Federal Agencies, Local & State of Texas

mLife
Mobile Healthcare Research Vehicle

A laboratory platform for exploring innovations in mobile healthcare and those enabling technologies that are critical to advancement in this important area of research. The vehicle provides a fully reconfigurable hardware and software environment for hosting multiple research projects simultaneously that are centered on broader challenges in mobile healthcare.

Sponsor: Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station

Competencies: Medical Technology, Decision Support
Industries: Medical, Emergency Response, Training, Federal Agencies, Local & State of Texas

Tex-TRAC
Texas Teleforensic Remote Assistance Center

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Support the Texas Teleforensic Remote Assistance Center (Tex-TRAC) telehealth program that provides a statewide sexual assault nurse examiner (SANE) to serve rural and underserved communities in Texas. The interactive cart and iPad systems allows for identification of injuries and ensuring documentation is as comprehensive as possible, all while ensuring without sacrificing patient privacy, confidentiality, and expert care delivery.

Sponsor: Texas A&M Health

Competencies: Medical Technology, Decision Support
Industries: Medical, Emergency Response, Training, Federal Agencies, Local & State of Texas

WDSM
Wildlife Disease Spread Model

Screenshot of the Wildlife Disease Spread Model (WDSM) web application containing a 2D topographic map overlayed with colored boundaries. Surrounding the map are several information and data graph components.

Designed and developed a wildlife disease model for Classical Swine Fever (CSF) within feral swine to address limitations of current models, support assessment of the wildlife risk, inform strategies to prevent wildlife interaction, and simulate disease spread, potential time to detection, possible control and mitigation strategies, and the respective economic costs.

Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture – Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

Competencies: Modeling & Simulation, Data Visualization, Decision Support
Industries: Agriculture, Emergency Response, Training, Federal Agencies, Local & State of Texas