MU Health offers to treat prisoners via ‘telemedicine’
Source: By TERRY GANEY, Columbia Tribune (MO), Tuesday, January 16, 2007
University of Missouri Health Care would help a private company deliver medical care through an electronic network to thousands of state prison inmates under a bid being considered by state officials. The health-care system has partnered with Pittsburgh-based Wexford Health Sources Inc. for a Department of Corrections contract that could generate more than $100 million a year in gross revenue.