medTRAX meets this challenge with a simple, automated system featuring bar-coded triage tags, handheld computers to capture data, a wireless LAN to consolidate victim data, and internet access to make incident data available to downstream facilities in order to prepare for incoming casualties. A “transport label” travels with the victim to provide survivable data and a chain-of-custody. Only medTRAX tracks both victims and responders at site.

medTRAX has three software modules to control and automate the tracking of victims at the scene of a mass casualty incident:

-- PAS Mobile --
software is the primary data capture software that resides on a scanner-enabled Pocket PC. Its function is to scan a victim's triage tag and then enter the victim's triage priority, assignment, and vitals (time permitting), as well as any ID information that can be automatically stripped off the victim's driver’s license.

-- Victim Manager --
software resides on a laptop at the medical command post and is used to consolidate and manage data that is transferred (via wireless communications) from the Pocket PCs at site. Its primary function is to graphically display the number, status, and assignments of all victims at site – or in transport to a trauma center.

-- EMA Manager --
software (semi-custom) provides Internet access whereby information can be sent from Victim Manager to a web-based application so that remote facilities – such as a hospital or trauma center – can view incident details including the number and type of victims being transported to their facility.

medTRAX meets the requirements of the Dept. of HLS 2005 Authorized Equipment List (AEL): Item 4.4 - Systems, Operations Area Personnel Tracking and Accountability.

Protected by U.S. Patent No. 6,761,312