Noise-Tolerant Medical Record Voice Recorder

Creare proposes to design, develop, and deliver a Noise-Tolerant Medical Record Voice Recorder. Currently, medical personnel attending to injured soldiers at the point of injury do not have a consistent and accurate method to transfer vital medical information to final point of care medical personnel. To bridge this capability gap, what is needed is a digital voice recorder that is approximately the size of a modern dog tag (1" x 2" x 0.5"”) and is capable of surviving the challenges of the operating environment which includes both high noise and the real potential for physical and environmental abuse. Creare’s innovative design makes use of multiple noise reduction technologies to help mitigate the effects of high background noise levels on the recorded voice signal. During the Phase I project, we will demonstrate the feasibility of our design by fabricating a benchtop prototype and testing the prototype in high noise fields (up to 130 dB) using our acoustic test facility. During Phase II, we plan to finalize the design of our recorder, fabricate prototype devices, and perform field tests of the recorders.