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Implementing Telemedicine in Correctional Facilities (Paperback)
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Implementing Telemedicine in Correctional Facilities (Paperback)
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Loot Price R279
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An experiment in the late 1990s and an independent evaluation of
the experiment determined that providing long-distance health care
to inmates is feasible through a system called telemedicine.
Telemedicine uses telecommunications equipment that allows health
care providers to see and diagnose inmates in prisons located far
from health care providers' offices. The experiment showed that
prisons could improve inmate health care by providing remote access
to more medical specialists while reducing prisoner transport costs
and related security management costs. The National Institute of
Justice (NIJ) and Bureau of Prisons, U.S. Department of Justice;
and the U.S. Department of Defense cooperated in the experiment.
Several Federal prisons with different missions and security levels
were connected via a telemedicine network. One of the Federal
prisons was a medical center. A Veterans' Administration hospital
in Lexington, Kentucky, was also part of the network. An
independent evaluation of the experiment showed that telemedicine
could play an important role in delivering quality health care in
correctional systems. The costs and benefits vary according to the
type and nature of institution requirements, but the costs of
telemedicine equipment are continuing to decline. The success of
the telemedicine demonstration project led to the decision to use
the information from that study to develop a manual on implementing
correctional telemedicine. The information in this manual can be
used by correctional administrators who are evaluating whether
telemedicine is an acceptable approach to providing medical care in
their facility. This report provides a model for estimating the
relative costs of telemedicine-the provision of health care over a
distance using telecommunications technology-under varying
conditions in a correctional setting. With the information tools
provided in this document, the correctional administrator will be
able to determine if telemedicine is a cost-effective option.
Information in this report is based on a study of the
cost-effectiveness of telemedicine in a correctional system.
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