The "Electronic Injury Ticket System" can realize real-time recording and tracking of injury data and facilitate inspection by attendants. The white and blue devices in the picture are neck-mounted electronic injury tickets and E-PASS respectively. (Photo by reporter Wu Zheyu)
[Reporter Wu Zheyu/Comprehensive Report] The National Army has confirmed the purchase of the "Electronic Injury Ticket System" that was exhibited in 2025. 60,500 units will be purchased in three years to achieve real-time recording and tracking of injury data. The system can simultaneously send injury information to various military doctors. The hospital and regional emergency medical response centers can instantly report on-site conditions and medical needs, allowing the hospital to quickly grasp the distribution of casualties across the site and adjust resource allocation. This will help medical personnel accurately complete patient rescue, evacuation, and resource allocation in severe battlefield environments.
This procurement plan was revealed in the Ministry of National Defense's latest 115-year budget freeze report to the Legislative Yuan. The Ministry of National Defense stated that taking into account the changes in today's combat patterns, the computerization of casualty records will allow medical facilities at all levels and emergency hospitals that receive casualties to immediately understand the patient's injury treatment process and transfer information, and then provide medical treatment suggestions in advance to improve battlefield survival rates.
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The "Electronic Injury Ticket System" includes two items: electronic injury ticket and medical energy evacuation management system. The system is divided into "neck-mounted electronic injury ticket (for patients)", "neck-mounted E-PASS (for medical staff)", "resilient node device" and "rugged tablet". It uses AI technology to integrate big data information and use visual charts to present information such as combat injury status, medicine (health) materials inventory, evacuation routes and emergency treatment capacity of responsible hospitals, providing real-time control and decision-making in the combat zone.
The Ministry of National Defense pointed out that based on the calculation of 20% of the wounded and 10% of the administrative turnover rate during wartime, it is estimated that the demand for neck-mounted electronic injury tickets is about 60,500 sets. The electronic injury ticket uses platform software authorization, which is based on the total number of more than 3,000 medical service non-commissioned officers and soldiers in the entire army. The ambulance attendance is estimated to be based on a vehicle commander and a driver. The demand is about 1,500 people. Priority is given to vehicle commanders of first- and second-level medical service units. The software authorization of the node management interface will be distributed in 27 locations including the military services, combat areas, headquarters, and hospitals of the national army.
The Ministry of National Defense further pointed out that it plans to purchase an electronic casualty ticket system from 2015 to 2017 and distribute it to all medical service units and national military hospitals for use. It also plans to conduct "military, public and private medical integration drills" in each combat zone every two months, so as to make the communication and operation mechanism between the emergency hospital and the combat zone more familiar.
The picture shows the operation of the National Army's electronic injury ticket. (Photo by reporter Wu Zheyu)
The Ministry of National Defense emphasized that electronic injury tickets have an information security protection mechanism, which distinguishes five key points: identity protection, data protection, authority protection, resilience protection and backup protection. Identity protection uses multi-factor verification, combining physical e-pass verification devices, personalized verification PIN codes, and a dedicated APP to read electronic ticket personal information.
In the data protection part, the electronic injury ticket adopts a memory chip with hardware protection, which cannot be read arbitrarily by ordinary mobile phones; in the permission protection part, the system decentralizes rights according to roles and gives different reading permissions. For example, system administrators, task administrators, site administrators, and medical rescue personnel have specific permissions at each hierarchical level.
The resilient protection design ensures that "basic operations can still be maintained when the network is absent." It allows the mobile device to complete data operations when offline, complete the signing with the private key and temporarily store it in a local queue. When the network is restored, it will be sent back to the resilient node one by one for synchronization.
The redundant protection adopts a multi-node architecture instead of storing all data on a central host. Each on-site node can operate, and data is maintained consistent through the synchronization mechanism between nodes.
The picture shows the "neck-mounted electronic injury ticket". (Photo by reporter Wu Zheyu)
