We had a similar item issued to us being a medic in the Army. We got palm pilots loaded with a software to "assist" us in doing patient records for sick call and also for casualty treatment. The idea was that every soldier was to have their own CF card , and when we treated them , we would update the data with new treatments , vitals etc. In the aid stations , it would be loaded onto a laptop that was networked into some sort of server that kept track of their med status.
The idea for deployment was that if we treated a casualty, and when he was passed up the echelon of care , his card would go with eliminating the paper forms etc.
It also had all the wireless defeated , but when synced up to their "network" would do what it needed to do. It was more of a PITA than it was doing paper forms and I got out before the unit deployed so I do not know how well it really worked.