Issue No 3

Military Health & Technology

Features
A Healing Connection Brings Vets Back from the Edge
by Marti Healy
Features
Bob Nevins was a combat medevac helicopter pilot in Vietnam. He came home from war wounded, shot down by enemy fire, highly decorated for bravery in action. Like so many of his fellow vets, he was a hero with unseen wounds, silent scars. Twenty years later Nevins stepped away early from his established...
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The Pararescueman Mission: So Others May Live
by Health21 Magazine Editorial Staff
Features
Many people know about or have personal experience with first responders, those dedicated and selfless individuals who are among the first to arrive and assist at the scene of an emergency. First responders receive training and typically include paramedics, emergency medical technicians and rescuers...
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Military Health 2020 Focuses on Collaboration
by AMSUS
Features
The Military Health System (MHS) is undergoing a major transformation. To support and advance federal healthcare, the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States (AMSUS) hosted a forum entitled “Over the Horizon:  Military Health in 2020” to foster discussions around policy and strategy. Panel...
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Departments
Precision Medicine, Privacy & Cybersecurity
by Emily Darraj, DSc and CMS Security and Privacy Manager, Northrop Grumman | Brian McElyea, PhD and Cyber Architect and Privacy Coordinator, Northrop Grumman
Departments
This article is the first of a two-part series on genomic data, privacy and emerging cybersecurity threats. Part one details key issues affecting genomic data and technology challenges. Part two offers an “additive” model to current regulations on genomic data to provide further protections, along with...
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Genetic Engineering Requires a Heedful Eye
by Mira C. Hasner, Leiden University Medical Centre
Departments
Long before discovery of DNA, humans have been strengthening traits in plants and animals through selective breeding. Aiming for useful variation, people started mutating genetic codes of plants in the 1960s. Since the 1970s, they have been inserting DNA in bacterial, plant and animal cells to study...
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My 27-year Journey with Traumatic Brain Injury
by John W. Sharpe, FACHE, VHA-CM, Inspirational Healthcare Management Analyst, VA-DoD Liaison, Veterans Health Administration
Departments
The following article is a first-hand account by John Wayne Sharpe, a service-connected veteran who sustained a severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) while in the Air Force 27 years ago. His experiences, understanding, views and accounts of events are personal. Therefore, this article is not endorsed ...
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Columns
Key Developments in the American Healthcare System
by Vice Adm. Michael Cowan, Medical Corps, U.S. Navy, Retired
Columns
A friend of mine was recently released from the hospital following a routine surgical procedure and, after regaling me with his saga of green jello, hospital gowns open in the back and the sticker shock of his bills, asked me, “Why is the American healthcare system so expensive and complicated?” The...
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Wearable Exoskeletons Help Paralyzed Vets Walk
by Gen. Larry O. Spencer, USAF (Ret.), President, Air Force Association
Columns
As Air Force Association (AFA) President, I am proud to provide our members with Issue 2 of our newest member benefit, Health21 Magazine, co-founded by AMSUS, the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States. AFA is partnering on this health education initiative (www.health21initiative.org) ...
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Why U.S. Health Care Should be a Limited Human Right
by David L. Woodrum, MBA and Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives
Columns
The following is a review of the book, “Why the United States Healthcare System Should be a Limited Human Right for All,” Section One (2009) with Section Two (2010-2017) by Mark Tozzio, M-IHHS and Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives. Since 1946 the United States has signed and ratified...
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