Joint Health Risk Management (JHRM)

Capability Summary: The Joint Health Risk Management (JHRM) program will provide leaders with a decision support capability to collect, identify, report, and document man-made and naturally occurring health hazards at the tactical edge to inform decision making and enhance operational risk management. JHRM will leverage existing operational networks and operate alongside the Joint Battle Command Platform, visualizing hazard and personnel location enhancing situational awareness and reducing exposure risk, thus conserving force strength and readiness. JHRM will compile health hazard data from the tactical edge and pass data to Defense Occupational and Environmental Health (OEH) Readiness Database.

Current Capability Gaps:

• Lack of OEH exposure related documentation for operational, garrison, and training environments.
• Insufficient capability to compare and contrast safety and mission considerations and quantify a risk assessment.
• Insufficient integration of rear echelon technical expertise and information with operational environment data to produce knowledge by which commanders can make informed decisions.
• Insufficient ability to continuously assess health risks (and exposures) to operational personnel, in real-time or near real-time, with high accuracy over the entire operational deployment.

Impact: JHRM integration with the Department of Defense tactical networks enables data collection of OEH exposure data anywhere in the Area of Operations (AO), providing a comprehensive picture of the OEH hazards in the AO to rear echelon Force Health Protection personnel and AO commanders. Identifying hazards quickly and providing real-time and near real-time exposure data over the tactical network enhances situational awareness and reduces warfighter exposures, while enabling commanders to accomplish the mission.