Integration of heterogeneous medical supplies and computerized medical maintenance management (CMMS) databases and decision support systems

This paper discusses an ongoing medical informatics and business process reengineering research project. The Joint Medical Asset Repository (JMAR) is a relational database system created to integrate very diverse medical supply and medical maintenance management information from the US military services existing heterogeneous database systems. JMAR allows strategic and tactical decision making without the cost, complexity, risk and delay of forcing military service to convert to a standard platform.