Posted on 04/26/2010 3:31:35 PM PDT by combat_boots
Delivering medical services to prison inmates is never simple. In Tennessee, the Department of Correction has recently placed telemedicine gear in clinics in all of its prisons, and is bringing on line a system to let doctors reach patients around a large state without burning time and money on travel.
TDOC is building on its legacy videoconferencing system, with limited use for actual medical care, and with cost issues related to phone use.
Exzample: May 12, 2009 "States expand videoconferencing in prisons" http://realcostofprisons.org/blog/archives/2009/05/states_expand_v.html
What is good for prisoners in TN....is good for the public! Right? Could Sheriff Joe Arpaio in AZ be unknowingly prescient as to future citizen lifestyles evolving from current prisoner lifestyles? Egads.
In UK, the medical rationing there is now to cut “talking” services altogether. Virtual lip movement and phonation with volume control are about it for availiability of “personal” interaction to come in greater prevalence. In addition, they are the most monitored people on the planet, being viewed outside up to 500 times a day as they move about anywhere in an urban environment, with plans to monitor them in their homes as well, even when sleeping. Digital data storage capacities are already challenged there.
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