The UK Defence Medical Services (DMS) has awarded a £2.5 million ($3.3 million) contract to Avenue3 to deliver Project Mercury, a secure electronic health record (EHR) system designed to support military clinicians operating in deployed and austere environments worldwide.
Project Mercury enables clinicians to access, update, and share medical records across multiple devices, even in locations without reliable internet connectivity. The platform is built to support frontline medical decision-making by ensuring patient data remains available during deployments, humanitarian missions, and combat operations.
Leeds-based Avenue3 will collaborate closely with UK and NATO medical personnel to refine the system for current and future operational requirements. A key feature of Project Mercury is its use of Near Field Communication (NFC) technology, allowing secure offline data transfers similar to contactless payment systems, ensuring continuity of care when network access is limited.
The project is transitioning from proof-of-concept to full deployment, with the first operational release scheduled for Spring 2026 and continued rollout through 2027. Project Mercury aligns with the UK Ministry of Defence’s broader push to modernize military healthcare, complementing earlier initiatives to unify medical records, digitize field medical equipment, and build a fully interoperable Defence Healthcare Information Services ecosystem.
