The Criminal Justice System and Medicaid:
Collaboration or Collision Post Health Reform?
Collaboration or Collision Post Health Reform?
Question and Answer Session, Part 1
Having a medical home – a trusted, reliable source of continuing health care – can ease the process for people leaving jail so that they’re less likely to return.
—Dick Bohrer
COCHS Advisory Committee Member
COCHS Advisory Committee Member
Departments of corrections and health providers from the community should join together in the common project of delivering high quality health care that protects prisoners and the public.
—Confronting Confinement:
A Report of the Commission on Safety and Abuse in America’s Prisons
A Report of the Commission on Safety and Abuse in America’s Prisons
By collaborating with community health centers, jails can be part of the solution to improving both public safety and public health.
—Keith Barton, M.D.
COCHS' Medical Director
COCHS' Medical Director
RESOURCES
- The Unseen Provider: Healthcare in Our Jails is a short documentary that explores the great potential health information exchange (HIE) presents to correctional institutions wanting to achieve continuity of care with community providers. It features Dr. Farzad Mostashari, former National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, and Dr. Jeffery Brenner, Director and Founder of Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers.
- 6,3Electronic Health Records (EHRs) as Human Rights Tool. Dr. Homer Venters, Assistant Commissioner of Correctional Health Services, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, explains how EHRs in corrections can be used as tools for monitoring human rights. Further information concerning the role EHRs can play in promoting human rights can be found in an article published in the Health and Human Rights Journal: Data-Driven Human Rights: Using the Electronic Health Record to Promote Human Rights in Jail.
- Issues with Electronic Health Records While COCHS has the perspective that the transparency of electronic health records (EHRs) can often be a human rights tool, especially in reference to injury reporting, it is apparent that there are multiple challenges with this technology. For more information on this matter please see this report from California Healthline.
- COCHS Glossary: Speaking the Same Language: Criminal Justice, Health Care, and Information Technology is a handbook that contains definitions of terms that cross the domains of criminal justice, health care, and information technology.
- COCHS M.A.P. Tool 2.0 @ is COCHS' web application that provides GIS technology for reentry planning.
Links
- Profits vs. Prisoners
The Southern Poverty Law Center in an article entitled, Profits vs. Prisoners, examines how the largest, correctional health care vendor provides care to the nation's incarcerated population. Read more... - Mental health spending nets return by reducing jail population
Each dollar a state spends on mental health care cuts roughly 25 cents off its jail expenditures by reducing its inmate population, a new study shows. Read more... - Toolkit: State Strategies to Enroll Justice-Involved Individuals in Health Coverage
Implementing processes to enroll justice-involved individuals in health coverage on a large scale is a new endeavor for states and their efforts are in the early stages. This toolkit from the National Academy for State Health Policy provides guidance on how to approach this new opportunity. Read more... -
Federal Drug Sentencing Laws Bring High Cost, Low Return
A report from the Pew Charitable Trusts reviewing the history of the Federal sentencing laws past in the 1990s and 1980s: these laws have neither decreased drug use nor recidivism. Read more... -
State Medicaid Eligibility Policies for Individuals Moving Into and Out of Incarceration
An issue brief from The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation explaining Medicaid eligibility for justice involved populations. Read more... -
State Profiles of Health Care Information for the Criminal Justice System
A map of the United States that allows the user to explore how each state has implemented health information technology for the criminal justice population. This project was developed by the Legal Action Center through a grant by the Bureau of Justice Assistance. Read more...
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