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Audit pans records system / Program for inmates' medical information fails expectations

Source: By STEVE SCHULTZE, Journal Sentinel (WI), Feb. 29, 2008


A nearly 5-year-old computerized medical records system for inmates at the Milwaukee County Jail and the House of Correction in Franklin has failed to provide more than $1 million in expected savings and has worked so poorly it should be trashed, a new audit (.pdf) says.

..... The vendor chosen for the system, Illinois-based Seaquest Technologies, did not have experience designing records systems for correctional facilities.