DoD Individual Medical Readiness (IMR)

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DoD Individual Medical Readiness (IMR)
Kelly Woodward, Lt Col, USAF, MC Chief,
Preventive Medicine Air Force Medical Operations
Agency Office of the Surgeon General
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IMR PURPOSE
Ensure Military Members Are Medically Ready to
Deploy

• Provide commanders and medical personnel with
  real time status of individual medical readiness
  (IMR) requirements for members
• Key DoD Criteria
• Current Immunizations
• Deployment limiting conditions
• Dental classification
• Readiness labs (HIV, Blood Type, DNA, etc)
• Current Health Assessment
• Medical Equipment (Glasses, Gas Mask Inserts,
  Resp Prot, Hearing Prot, etc)
• NOTE Each indicator is defined by
  Service specific requirements

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Proposed MHS IMR Classification System
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IMR Flowchart

• - Deployment Prohibiting Condition
• Inpatient/convalescing
• Dental Class 3

YES
Not Medically Ready
NO
- Dental Class 4 - Health Assessment not current
YES
Unknown
NO
Medically Ready With Minimal Intervention

• - Immunizations needed
• Medical readiness labs needed
• Medical equipment needed

YES
NO
Fully Medically Ready
YES
- DOD IMR Issues Current
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Proposed MHS metrics

• Objective Optimize Readiness
• Metric Fully Medically Ready (all DoD IMR
  requirements met)
• Metric Known Action Due
• Denominator definition - Recommend building to
  include entire AD Force (Track Reserve
  Components Separately), this will include some
  not subject to deployment like basic trainees,
  students, TDA, etc

GRAY

• IMR (unknown) plus
  (missing IMR req)

YELLOW
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DoD IMR Issues

• This concept permits appropriate individual
  Service flexibility yet gives a standard
  framework for DOD IMR metrics
• Services/Components do not have fully
  
  mature systems for capturing/reporting
  this
  information/ metrics
• Services have varying capabilities
  all
  have some capability which can
  be
  adapted to support DoD metrics
• Services must build/expand and
  consolidate
  automated and/or
  web-based metrics

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DoD IMR Workgroup Recommendations

• Implement DoD IMR metrics in phases based on
• Maturity of data
• Develop timeline for each criteria
• Add criteria as data accuracy is acceptable
• Priority of denominator
• Begin with personnel in readiness positions and
  build to full force
• Phase in Reserve Components

• Charter Working Group to continue development and
  implementation
• Determine and obtain resources/funding

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Questions?
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Service Specific IMR Data and Sources
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Service Specific IMR Data and Sources
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Metrics roll up