b'Partner News Winter 2020 23EnterpriseTechnical innovation to deliver advanced medical care communicationSA Groups Technical Project Team has helped deliver innovative and secure telemedicine capabilities for the MOD this year. Nicknamed Project LARA, the Agile project team combined Test & Trial specialists with project managers, business analysts and military personnel to enhance medical communications in the field despite strict social distancing restrictions. Telemedicine is used by military surgeons in difficult and often isolated locations, allowing them to liaise with UK-based colleagues to access specialist skills and vital support. Yet until recently provision of this support was relatively ad hoc, using civilian technology and insecure networks.Telemedicine brings specialist medical expertise to military surgeons in the field. Ministry of DefenceProject LARA aims to substantially enhance patient care in the field through a range ofcombining a Business Analyst to captureThe MVP testing was conducted using innovative military-grade communicationend to end User requirements, a Projectdeployed connectivity options; 3G/4G, capabilities, including: Manager to co-ordinate the developmentWIFI, SatCom bearers and VPNs.and testing activities plus provide Medical Messaging - Support to a LANDgovernance and control, and a Test & TrialsNext Phaseled trial of a medical messaging applicationSpecialist to cover all project capabilitiesThe success of the project so far has for on both personal and MOD phones.Aand enable a user-driven development ofenabled the joint team to claim Initial public-hosted AWS cloud solution that isthe Minimal Viable Product (MVP).Operating Capability (IOC), delivering:delivering a medically tailored, WhatsApp- Medical Messaging - Beta Testing and type messaging system for 2,000 users. Test & Trials Management Transition into Live Services by Q1 2021. The SA Group Test & Trials ManagerRemote Monitoring - finalising the Remote Monitoring - The networkingcreated a Master Test and Trials Plan tooutstanding work strands to achieve Full of 800 Tempus Pro medical monitorscover all the capabilities for the Project.Operating Capability (FOC).providing the capability to transmit patientWorking in the context of the Covid-19Real-Time Clinical Support - delivery of vital signs. Exploitation to enable widerepidemic, we conducted testing underthe MVP solution for deployed user trials, networking in order to deliver clinicalsocial distancing restrictions of theworking towards IOC and FOC.reach back and medical record archivingReal-Time Clinical Support solution with from forward location to the UK or largerthe Medical Joint Service OperatingThe SA Group team are proud to continue medical facilities. Department Practitioners (ODP), enabling aour work on this project, using our user driven development of the MVP.experience and knowledge to help provide Real-Time Clinical Support - An augmentedcutting edge medical care to HM Forces in reality, surgical reach back system forThe MVP consisted of two cameras withthe field.deployed R2 medical facilities, allowing aergonomic mounting to provide the live deployed surgeon to stream live video backvideo streaming to the local and remoteTo find out more about SA Groups to a UK specialist for support, in real time. surgeon, using a MOD accredited UK AWSTechnical, P3M and Digital expertise, go SA Group created a bespoke project team,hosted application.to sa-group.com or call 03333 583340.'