text: Chapter 2
  * Recommending policies and determining requirements and priorities for MEDLOG (to include
  blood and blood products, medical supply/resupply, medical equipment maintenance and repair,
  production of medicinal gases, optometric support, and fabrication of single- and multivision
  optical lens spectacle fabrication and repair, and contract support).
  * Recommending policies and determining requirements for medical information systems. The
  usage of these systems will enable theater-wide visibility in support of AHS functions and joint
  HSS.
  * Recommending MEDEVAC policies and procedures.
  * Monitoring medical regulating and patient tracking operations.
  * Determining AHS training requirements.
  * Developing policies, protocols, and procedures pertaining to the medical and dental treatment of
  sick, injured, and wounded personnel. These policies, protocols, and procedures will be in
  consonance with applicable regulations, directives, and instructions; higher headquarters policies;
  SOPs; applicable multinational force compatibility agreements; memorandums of understanding
  or agreement; and Status of Forces Agreements.
  * Ensuring patient safety, quality assurance, infection control, and risk management programs are
  established and implemented.
  * Ensuring field medical records and/or electronic medical records, when available, are maintained
  on each Soldier at the primary care MTF according to AR 40-66. This includes documentation of
  any radiological exposures and integration with U.S. Army Dosimetry Center and radiation safety
  officer as necessary.
  * Ensuring compliance with the theater blood bank service program.
  * Ensuring a viable veterinary program (to include inspection of subsistence and outside the
  continental U.S. food production and bottled water facilities, veterinary public health, and animal
  medical care [including establishing a military working dog (MWD) evacuation policy]) is
  established.
  * Ensuring a medical laboratory capability or procedures for obtaining this support from out of
  theater resources are established for the identification and confirmation and/or theater validation
  of the use of suspect biological warfare and chemical warfare agents by opposition forces. This
  also includes the capability for collecting specimens/samples, packaging, and handling
  requirements and escort/chain of custody requirements. For additional information on AHS
  support in a CBRN environment refer to Army medical doctrine.
  * Planning for and implementing public health operations and facilitating health risk
  communications (to include operational public health activities and initiating personnel protective
  measures to counter the health threat).
  * Planning for and ensuring pre- and postdeployment health assessments are accomplished.
  * Establishing and executing a medical surveillance program (refer to DODD 6490.02E, DODI
  6490.03, and AR 40-66 for an in-depth discussion).
  * Establishing and executing an OEH surveillance program.
  * Recommending COSC, BH, and substance abuse control programs.
  * Coordinating for medical intelligence with the supporting intelligence officer, section, and unit.
  Refer to Appendix D for more information on medical intelligence. Pursuing other avenues to
  obtain medical intelligence and/or medical information such as the—
   National Center for Medical Intelligence.
   Army Public Health Center.
   Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
   United States Public Health Services.
   The Office of The Surgeon General, Intelligence and Security Division.
   Intergovernmental organizations (such as the United Nations, the World Health Organization,
  or the Pan American Health Organization, and other nongovernmental organizations).
   Information gathered from MSAT, site visits to host-nation medical facilities.