The Broadcast Edge

  Utilization of healthcare services has become a central story point when examining healthcare delivery. Utilization is important for cost containment, has potential to benefit quality of care through best practice alignment and provides insight into substandard or deficient current operations.  Military healthcare is largely held to cost containment pressures, and these pressures seek utilization innovation to improve and assure delivery. Military healthcare is largely a government funded operation in most countries, and utilization strategies are great opportunities everywhere.  There are three rules that could be applied to the large and complex utilization arena. These three rules should be applied with the tandem concept of utilization improvement for the military  alongside  healthcare access delivery improvements for all countries.  1. Everyone is a genius when playing in a united center.  Large quantities of utilization data, with variance to ...

Infectious disease improvements in the military should be a global alliance, and we can accomplish this by connecting to our military customers. A long-standing benefit to the infectious disease specialty is that of structure. It is a medical specialty with very specific visibility to disease. Pathogens may have preference to environments and vectors, yet pathogens are a threat to all humans. Pathogens do not discriminate based on geopolitical uniform. Infectious disease is a relatively structured division of healthcare, with formal pathways to diagnostics, care management guidelines and therapeutics. It is a relatively structured specialty for networks as well, with international peers in private industry alongside academia and alongside public health. Infectious disease is a connected specialty. A global movement in military healthcare should connect professional networks and pathways for infectious disease management improvements. This can be accomplished in united front; consid...

  Military inclusion with global burn science alignment is a path of least resistance along the international deployment health alliance journey. Burn care is specific, complex and teams driven. There are advantages when choosing burn medicine as specialty for global alignment. The coordinated care is watchful and research metrics are attainable. Care is generally delivered in hospitals and centers are accustomed to other quality requirements, so professional alignment is ripe. Additionally, the patient population is contained, known and small enough for very specific attention.  Military related burn science should be aligned internationally. The following opportunities in military related burn science are succinctly outlined:    * Much of the research around burn injuries and military personnel is not accessible by the public. This should be funded at time of publication as open access. * All investments in burn care for military units are investments in bu...