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Simulating without Data. Dr Dean S Hartley III Hartley Consulting. December xx, 2002. DSH-0332. Personal Information Carrier (PIC). The PIC is a dog-tag sized memory card that slides into a PC card adapter made especially for this device
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Simulating without Data Dr Dean S Hartley III Hartley Consulting December xx, 2002 DSH-0332
Personal Information Carrier (PIC) • The PIC is a dog-tag sized memory card that slides into a PC card adapter made especially for this device • The U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command (MRMC) Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC) is developing the PIC to contain the entire medical record of soldiers, both enlisted and officers, throughout their military career • The intent is to make this information readily available anywhere the soldier seeks medical treatment
Problem CONUS THEATER
COMPACTFLASH 15 TM Solution Hardened Dogtag Medical Records Database
Next Problem • What are the records to be stored? • How much room will each take? • How many records are expected in a lifetime? • Can the technology support them? • How can the information be protected?
Process • Define types of encounters • Estimate text size for each type • Estimate image size for each type • Define relevant patient categories (e.g., man, woman, enlisted, officer, pilot, etc.) • Estimate frequencies for each type by category • Build model
Answer • Pseudo-data says a 2 meg CompactFlash is sufficient for text data • Pseudo-data says a 2 gig Compact Flash is required for image data • Technology will support megs, not gigs • Real data not required • Store text data, facial image, fingerprint images
Conclusions • All models need testing for order of magnitude results • Some problems only require order of magnitude results • This problem only required understanding the problem plus pseudo-data