PEO EIS hosted its very first virtual industry day on March 20 to acquire industry feedback about an Army plan to award at least three Other Transaction Authority (OTA) prototypes demonstrating business processes that support deploy-to-redeploy and retrograde (D2RR) of materiel.

FORT DETRICK, Md. – Medical Communications for Combat Casualty Care (MC4) is responding to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic at multiple locations across the country and overseas with equipment and direct technical and training support to dozens of Army units deployed to aid COVID-19 efforts. MC4 teams consist of healthcare information technology (IT) subject matter experts (SMEs), system administrators, and a variety of training personnel specializing in on-site support. The teams conduct software and hardware maintenance and system refreshes, updates and training.

In November 2019, the Army deployed its Health Assessment Lite Operations (HALO) software to medical forces in Afghanistan. HALO is a digitized version of the Standard Form (SF) 600 used by DoD medical personnel to document patient treatment for wounded, injured or sick patients. It was developed by the Medical Communications for Combat Casualty Care (MC4), the Army acquisition program with primary responsibility for providing Army operational health IT capabilities for deployed medical forces.