Fastfowarding ahead to the year of 2008 the correctional healthcare industry begin to imcorporate some aspects of technology to help minimize the risk of medical patient errors and to increase patient safety. Today, with the advancement of technology it has help open a line of communication not just between staff but also with outside correctional and healthcare facilities such as hospitals, clinics, health departments, and even with Walgreens and CVS since at times we have to utilize them if we do not have certain medications in stock. Telemedicine has become very vital to this aspect of health care because it allows health care services to still be reinder to patients while reducing security risk from patients from one area to another.
