MC4 Fast Facts
Medical Communications for Combat Casualty Care (MC4)
MC4 Overview:
- Integrates, fields, trains and supports a medical information management system for Army tactical medical forces
- Improves battlefield healthcare by allowing medical personnel to use portable hardware and software systems to record the medical treatment provided to injured personnel
- In contrast to the paper-based systems used since World War II, MC4 allows service members' medical information to be securely stored and shared simultaneously in multiple locations, whenever and wherever it is needed
- Enables a comprehensive, lifelong electronic medical record for all service members
- Enhances medical situation awareness for operational commanders
- The system provides the solution to Presidential and Congressional objectives set forth by Title 10 in 1997 that called for a medical tracking system on the battlefield for all deployed service members
- MC4 is the most comprehensive IM/IT medical system on the battlefield
The Numbers:
5 million electronic health records digitally captured in the combat zone and available worldwide via MC4
250 deployed medical units from Army, Air Force, Navy and Special Forces equipped with MC4
24,000 durable, standardized, cutting-edge systems fielded and supported
26,000 healthcare professionals and commanders trained and supported by onsite MC4 personnel
200 medical treatment facilities in the war zone, including every level III medical treatment facility (combat support hospitals are level III) are equipped, supported and use MC4 to electronically document
14 countries using MC4 systems across Army, Air Force and Navy – Special Forces using MC4 worldwide (exact locations are sensitive). Countries include:
- United States (for contingency operations such as Katrina)
- Southwest Asia—Iraq, Afghanistan, Kuwait, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Turkmenistan and Kyrgyzstan
- Europe—Germany, Italy and Romania
- South Korea
- Egypt
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