Upgrades enable battlefield doctors and medics to view patients' medical history stored in U.S. Published May 1, 2007 FALLS CHURCH, Va. -- The Theater Medical Information Program-Joint has released a fifth groundbreaking upgrade to its medical software suite. The new capability, known as AHLTA Warrior, will allow doctors on the battlefield to view a patient's complete electronic health record that is stored stateside in the AHLTA Clinical Data Repository. "AHLTA Warrior will give deployed providers a nearly 360-degree view of a patient's health record," said Army Col. Claude Hines, TMIP-J program manager. "Not only can they see the medical data collected in theater, but now they will be able to review a patient's past medical history as well." Some other new features that will be welcome additions to the software suite include, "wildcard" patient search functions, updated medical dictionaries and new medical and disease classification codes. The "wildcard" patient search will allow providers to quickly locate patient records using the first few letters of a last name and a special character. The updated codes will streamline documenting and reporting duties resulting in an overall improvement in efficiency and data quality. "This is a big win for both the warfighter and the Military Health System," says Maj. Michael Holmes, director of product development for TMIP-J. "The TMIP Team and its developmental partners are medical information management pioneers. Every upgrade delivers stronger and more flexible functionality to the military's deployed medical community." About TMIP-J The Theater Medical Information Program - Joint is an integrated suite of software that supports complete clinical care documentation, medical supply and equipment tracking, patient movement visibility, and health surveillance in an austere communications environment. As part of the Military Health System, TMIP-J provides medical information management technology to support the U.S. Military's deployed medical business practice. It also serves as the medical component for both the Global Combat Support System and the Global Command and Control System. TMIP-J is being used successfully by the Marine Corps in Operation Iraqi Freedom, the Air Force in Balad, Iraq, and Bagram, Afghanistan, hospitals, the Navy in Kuwait and the Army in over 100 units, including 50 medical units and 12 combat support hospitals. TMIP provides a total medical information management solution for the medical business practice in theater. For more information, please visit www.tricare.osd.mil/peo/tmip.