USTRANSCOM announces patient evacuation system capability
This premiere and state of the art software enterprise is the management tool for the worldwide patient movement system.
"The long range impact of TRAC2ES in patient movement will be analogous to the impact Microsoft Office has had in business," as retired Air Force Lt. Col. Corey Kirschner, former director and functional manager of TRAC2ES was fond of saying.
The TRAC2ES vision was the result of lessons learned from the Persian Gulf War where patient movement was hampered by lack of lift coordination, global regulating capability and poor in-transit visibility.
Former TRANSCOM Surgeon General, Lt. Gen. Charles Roadman wanted to improve tracking of patients.
"If Federal Express can track a package, why can't we track a patient?" Roadman asked.
Dissatisfied with the results of the old paradigms, command leadership initiated the re-engineering of all worldwide patient movement.
The result of this innovative reorganization was to bring all patient movement, both in war and peace, under the auspices of the USTRANSCOM.
This required the merger of the Armed Services Medical Regulating Office and the Patient Airlift Center into one integrated organization, the Global Patient Movement Requirements Center (GPMRC), with sister Theater Patient Movement Requirements Centers (TPMRC) in Germany and Japan.
These three centers are responsible for managing the regulation, lift and in-transit visibility of all patient movement worldwide.
To facilitate this vast and complicated patient movement system, the USTRANSCOM surgeon launched the development of an Automated Information System and enterprise approach to global patient movement operations.
This state of the art AIS is TRAC2ES. TRAC2ES combines transportation, logistics and clinical decision support elements into a seamless patient movement info-sphere capable of visualizing, assessing and prioritizing patient movement requirements, assigning proper resources and distributing relevant data to efficiently deliver patients during peace, war and contingency operations.
Additionally, TRAC2ES replaces two DOD legacy systems, the Defense Medical Regulating Information System and the Automated Patient Evacuation System.
TRAC2ES allows the GPMRC and TPMRCs to provide a "one stop shop" approach to request, validate, plan and manage global patient movement and provide in-transit visibility (scheduled and actual) for all patients in the global patient movement process.
TRAC2ES performs integrated "lift-bed planning" by consolidating patient movement requests identifying and proposing lift options and disseminating approved patient movement solutions to the agencies involved in actual patient movement operations.
The TRAC2ES Enterprise is a product of the award-winning business process reengineering efforts continually being refreshed to accommodate "to-be" command and control authorities.
"TRAC2ES will provide a significant improvement in the war-fighter's ability to conduct patient movement operations in both contingency and peacetime operating environments," according to Maj. Gen. William Peck, commander of the Air Force Operational Test and Evaluation Center.
USTRANSCOM aggressively managed the process development to ensure CONUS and OCONUS operations mirror one another closely.
TRAC2ES users will be able to submit patient movement requests, receive patient movement plans and itineraries, enter and/or view patient in-transit visibility information and retrieve statistical summary reports.
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