From Nextgov.com: Pentagon orders system to track soldiers for brain injuries
After years of criticism for not properly diagnosing and treating troops affected by battlefield explosions, Defense calls for a database that would alert physicians to check for hard-to-detect concussions and brain damage.
Deputy Secretary of Defense William Lynn III issued a memo on Monday calling for the Defense Department to develop systems that would track soldiers who experience concussions on the battlefield and match them to specific events in combat in an effort to better treat them, a shortcoming that the department had been sharply criticized for not resolving.
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