Austere Environment Virtual Health | GlobalMed
Military Virtual Health Solutions
Defense Health Agency Networks
The Department of Defense (DoD) Authorization to Operate establishes that GlobalMed meets rigorous security and operational standards in healthcare. What it enables in practice is specialist care delivered at the point of need, within DoD network infrastructure, without security concessions or workaround architecture.
GlobalMed is actively deployed across Defense Health Agency networks, which serve more than 170,000 healthcare personnel and support nearly 10 million beneficiaries. The eNcounter platform connects point-of-care providers to remote specialists under the same security requirements that govern every other system on those networks. In FY2025, that same platform delivered more than 121,000 virtual audiology episodes to veterans who would otherwise have had to travel long distances to access hearing evaluations.
10 million
beneficiaries supported
170,000
healthcare personnel served
121,000
virtual audiology episodes in 2025
Oil and Gas Remote Operations Telemedicine
On an offshore oil rig, there is no urgent care center within reach. A medical event that goes untreated becomes a helicopter evacuation, and a helicopter evacuation is expensive, operationally disruptive, and in most cases, avoidable with the right remote care infrastructure in place.
GlobalMed is deployed across five Petrobras offshore production platforms in partnership with Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, connecting rig workers to physicians without requiring them to leave the platform. Workers who previously had no on-site medical access now receive virtual consultations through GlobalMed's platform in areas with constrained bandwidth, where standard connectivity cannot be assumed. The result is one of the clearest proof points in offshore occupational health.
93.2% of Petrobras offshore workers were treated and discharged on-site, without helicopter evacuation
Virtual Care for Disaster Response
A disaster zone lacks the infrastructure a virtual health platform typically requires: no stable connection, no power grid, no road access, no clinical facility within reach.
When Cyclone Idai struck Zimbabwe's Manicaland Province in March 2019, GlobalMed's telemedicine network was already operating across 16 clinics in the region. The storm killed more than 1,300 people and triggered a cholera outbreak that reached over 4,000 patients. Those clinics absorbed the surge, connecting patients to doctors immediately while the province's hospitals were overwhelmed.
During a separate emergency training operation in Romania, GlobalMed maintained clinical connectivity more than 100 feet underground.
Where no infrastructure exists at all, GlobalMed's Mobile Medical Unit is built to arrive as the infrastructure: integrating Starlink satellite connectivity, AI-powered clinical decision support, and drone integration in a self-contained unit, requiring nothing external to operate.
Remote Correctional and Custodial Care
For correctional facilities, austere-environment virtual health is not a geographic problem. It is a cost and security problem. Every transport of a high-custody patient to an outside specialist requires personnel, coordination, and security exposure that virtual care eliminates entirely. The calculus is straightforward: a virtual consult costs less than a transport, carries less risk, and produces the same clinical result.
California Correctional Health Care Services deployed GlobalMed's virtual care platform and eliminated the majority of costly in-person patient transports. Incarcerated patients receive specialist consultations within the facility. The security burden drops, and the financial result is direct.
California Correctional Health Care Services saved $25M in one year