Military
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ANAM for Military
Injury, illness, and exposure to operational stressors can significantly disrupt cognitive function. These impairments may adversely affect performance and safety, especially in high-pressure environments commonly encountered by military and security personnel. ANAM, a tablet- or PC-based automated cognitive assessment platform, is designed to quantify the nuanced cognitive effects of such stressors.
Why ANAM?
With over four million administrations among U.S. military personnel, ANAM has repeatedly demonstrated the capability to detect cognitive changes associated with operational exposures or military-relevant risk factors. It serves as a critical tool for supporting informed personnel decisions and safeguarding individual health and mission readiness.
ANAM provides leaders with a tool that empowers them to:
- Provide insight into the cognitive health of their servicemembers.
- Evaluate performance following injury or exposure in comparison to baseline performance or a large normative database of over one million military personnel.
- Monitor recovery processes.
Our Observe software also has extensive applications beyond cognitive health, offering clinical care pathways for conditions ranging from malaria and COVID-19 to general medicine and emergency care.
ANAM has been used to examine the cognitive impacts of:
Sleep Deprivation
Nitrogen Narcosis
Mild Traumatic Brain Injury (mTBI), or Concussion
Hypoxia
Toxic Exposures
Explosive Use in Breaching Training
High Physical Stress and Fatigue
Performance Effects of Various Supplements
Training or Medical Interventions
Deploy Anywhere
ANAM has been deployed in a variety of harsh environments commonly encountered by military personnel – ranging from undersea to outer space. ANAM UltraMobile was specifically built for mobile deployment with input provided by U.S. Special Forces. It is optimized for use in locations without ready internet connectivity. Vista has also partnered with the U.S. Navy to create a version of ANAM UltraMobile that is fully functional underwater.
Land
Sea
Air
Product Features
The U.S. Military uses a customized ANAM battery that includes questionnaires assessing mood, general and brain injury symptoms, post-traumatic stress symptoms, and sleepiness. It also includes a selection of tests from the ANAM library measuring fundamental neurocognitive functions including response speed, attention/concentration, immediate and delayed memory, spatial processing, and decision processing speed and efficiency.
Our Products Are:
Proven
- ANAM has a well-established track record of effective deployment in military environments, with nearly four million cognitive assessments conducted to date.
- ANAM has a highly diverse history of use in research studies (over 450) for a variety of military-relevant risk factors.
- ANAM has been referred to as the “gold standard” for cognitive testing.
Secure
- Options for data communication include secure transmission over networks, cloud-based data aggregation, or direct/wire-only data sharing/data extract capabilities for the most secure situations.
- All ANAM testing is conducted locally on the device. UltraMobile uses have the option for secure data transmission when protocol permits.
- All data on ANAM tablets have AES 128 or AES 256-bit encryption.
Flexible
- ANAM is available on both standard (i.e., desktop/laptop) and mobile (i.e., tablet) computing platforms
- Administration capabilities include stand-alone, down-range (unconnected), and in small and large group environments, allowing users to deploy our technology anywhere.
- Standard military batteries include “short” and longer, extended batteries to be used at recruitment and semi-annual screening examinations.
- Trained users can administer tests “down range” without internet connectivity and compare to baselines previously imported from the standard ANAM platform or collected on the UltraMobile platform.
- Data storage can be customized to meet specific needs (local storage or cloud-based databases (hosted by the customer or Vista.)
Simple
- Reporting begins with a customized summary report providing a narrative summary of performance.
- Detailed reporting that includes comparisons to norms and the most recent baseline, as well as specific results for each cognitive test.
- ANAM tests are language-neutral and deployed with instructions that have been translated to the languages of expected test takers.
- VLS has contributed to the development of numerous normative databases, including the most extensive cognitive dataset to date—comprising data from over one million U.S. military service members, stratified by gender, age, and educational level.
Comprehensive
- ANAM includes a library of over 30 cognitive tests and behavioral health questionnaires as well as access to an extensive suite of data reporting and review tools that allow for a thorough and holistic examination of cognitive health.
- ANAM is designed specifically for repeated use, and has demonstrated reliability.
- UltraMobile includes clinical care pathways covering a range of conditions and interventions. Additional pathways can be developed by Vista as needed.
History
The U.S. military has used ANAM for pre-deployment baselines and post-injury return-to-duty since 2008, with over 3.75 million assessments conducted. Vista LifeSciences collaborated with U.S. Special Forces in the development of the mobile version of ANAM, UltraMobile, to ensure field-readiness of the technology.
Research
ANAM has been called the “gold standard” for cognitive testing in research looking at cognitive change. The combination of flexibility and sensitivity provided by ANAM has made it the leading product in military concussion research and cognitive monitoring.