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CA: Can Technology Fix California Prison Health Care?

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Can Technology Fix California Prison Health Care? http://www.cio.com/special/california_prison_IT 3 part article ? Kim S. Nash, CIO April 11, 2008 Four years ago at San Quentin, the 156-year-old prison where the state of California keeps some of its most dangerous criminals, doctors saw an inmate for high blood pressure, diabetes and renal failure. The inmate got two drugs that, according to court documents, made his kidney problems worse. His blood pressure climbed so high his eyes bled. Yet a year passed before prison medical staff referred the inmate to a kidney specialist at a local hospital. He never got to go?the records are unclear about why?and he died three months later. If only, as on the outside, there had been a database to alert prison doctors of drug interactions...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on April 24, 2008 (boomark / email).