2 weeks ago
We're proud to announce that R2 Medical Group has been selected as the scenario design and execution partner for the DARPA Triage Challenge. Our role goes beyond participation. R2MG is responsible for the full design and execution of the competitive evaluation environment — including all lanes and gates, the HMT Day, HMT Night, and Championship Lane scenarios, role player integration and management, high-fidelity casualty presentations, and the data collection infrastructure that gives every evaluation its scientific validity. We're honored to contribute to a program with direct implications for warfighter survivability and all those that have made this possible. See ya at work…
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3 weeks ago
This past weekend, R2 Medical Group ran a baselining event with National Guard medics from units across the country in support of the DARPA Triage Challenge.
That baseline is the foundation of human-machine teaming (HMT), not a preliminary step. You cannot claim a system improves a medic's performance without measuring the medic. And the honest position, autonomy in triage may eventually do more than assist. It could change what the medic does, shifting which decisions belong to the person and which belong to the machine. Whether it earns that is a question the data answers. The nearer test is whether it makes that person's decisions better under load, at scale, and when conditions degrade...
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4 weeks ago
The “Crawl” was a design decision.
When we scoped our first event with the 1st Cavalry Division, U.S. Army, we could have run it hot. Maximum casualties, maximum chaos, maximum footage. We ran it deliberately instead.
Here's why. A mass casualty exercise and a mass casualty study look nearly identical from the outside. The difference is whether anything comes out of the other end that you can actually use. Intensify before you instrument and you generate an experience. Instrument before you intensify and you generate evidence.
So the crawl event was built around the measurement rather than the spectacle…
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2 months ago
What Does Complexity Cost?
Every casualty event is different, with increased complexity in challenging operational contexts, such as mass casualty events, delayed evacuation, or extreme environments. The number of casualties, the environment, the available resources, the cognitive load on providers, the communication degradation, the evacuation timeline — these variables don't just influence outcomes. They define them. Yet when we evaluate medical technologies, training systems, and provider performance, we routinely treat complexity as a constant. It isn't.
Without a standardized way to characterize how difficult an emergency medical event actually was, we cannot accurately compare research findings…
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