US Air Force Adopts Caring Technologies Behavior Imaging® to Treat Military Service Members and Families Afflicted with Autism and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
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“In many cases, soldiers and their families are located on remote military bases that don’t provide easy access to the mental health specialists they need,” noted U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Tim Lacy, M.D.Additionally, Behavior Imaging allows them to securely share, annotate, store, organize the videos as electronic medical records to facilitate onsite and remote treatment, as well as long-term care.Boise, ID, May 12, 2010 --( PR.com )-- Caring Technologies Inc. announced today that the United States Air Force (USAF) has initiated a project to assess Behavior Imaging®, the company’s video-based telemedicine application, to help treat the children of military families who have autism.The USAF is also currently using Behavior Imaging® to improve the supervision of therapists who are using virtual reality technology to treat military service members with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).It could potentially be used to help service members afflicted with Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI).Behavior Imaging® applies a proprietary video technology to capture real-time behaviors as they occur in their natural environment, which improves the accuracy of diagnosis and treatment.