Army takes lessons learned from medical data

Medical data from wounded soldiers is helping to save those still fighting. "We had a great deal of data gathered during Vietnam, but it took 10 years to analyze it to help improve healthcare for soldiers," says Lt. Col. William Geesey, product manager for the Army's Medical Communication for Combat Casualty Care (MC4) system. "MC4 data was used in development of new body armor in which we could look at wound patterns for soldiers and identify places on the body where we needed to have greater coverage of body armor."

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