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    Soldiers may soon have implantable health monitors and robotic surgeries done remotel

    Soldiers may soon have implantable health monitors and robotic surgeries done remotely

    They also are talking about other types of implants to make soldiers futuristic super-soldiers.

    Soldiers may soon be carrying monitoring devices that can alert doctors thousands of miles away to medical emergencies and the need for treatment.

    The devices may even be implanted in soldiers and continuously monitor their status, the Army’s top doctor said in describing the near future of Army medicine.




    “We should be monitoring all soldiers, all the time, looking for patterns of injury or other signs for early detection,” said Lt. Gen. Nadja West, the Army’s surgeon general, during a talk May 8 at the Association of the U.S. Army in Arlington, Virginia. “We can do better when every soldier is a sensor, and we can continuously monitor information culled from them.”




    The monitors would send out streams of detailed data on a soldier’s health. For example, a device could measure blood sugar levels and a doctor or nurse hundreds or thousands of miles away can check on a soldier’s diabetes and recommend treatment or calibrate insulin.




    “There is an explosion of wearable and soon to be implantable peripheral monitors,” West said. “It completely revolutionizes how we can follow and impact a soldier’s health and a patient’s health.”

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    Here is a followup story that discusses further melding of man and machine in SOCOM- they call it "hyper-enabled operator" technology.

    Special Operations Command is launching a new effort to develop “hyper-enabled operator” technologies that will give service members enhanced capabilities, said the director of the command’s science and technology office May 22.

    
“The hyper-enabled operator is a concept, it is not a deliverable product,” said Lisa Sanders during remarks at the National Defense Industrial Association’s Special Operations Forces Industry Conference in Tampa, Florida. The ultimate is goal to make warfighters as effective as possible in achieving their missions, she said.


    The concept includes four technology pillars: communications, computing, data/sensors and human-machine interfaces.


    More effective communication devices are needed to connect operators on the tactical edge and provide them with up-to-date information, Sanders said.


    Computing and sensing capabilities are also critical to improving situational awareness by pushing data to dismounted troops, she noted.


    “Then the last piece is really, really important as we get to this” hyper-enabled operator, she said. An effective human-machine interface is needed to leverage the new communications, computing and data/sensing technologies.



    “That interface needs to be tailorable, it needs to be adaptable,” she said. “It cannot be the same for every person, it probably won’t be the same at every point in the mission."
    We are catching up to science fiction.
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    Science fiction truth devoid if moral reason....the death of us all.
    " I'm old-fashioned. I like two sexes! And another thing, all of a sudden I don't like being married to what is known as a 'new woman'. I want a wife, not a competitor. Competitor! Competitor!" - Spencer Tracy in 'Adam's Rib' (1949)

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    Quote Originally Posted by jimmyz View Post
    Science fiction truth devoid if moral reason....the death of us all.
    I imagine the DARPA folks think they are doing what is best for the US.
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