By Yvonne Wingett Sanchez
The Arizona Republic
MARICOPA COUNTY, Ariz. — Maricopa County will install an electronic medication system for its sprawling inmate-health-care organization to help eliminate paper records and ensure patients receive the proper medicine.
The new system, recently approved by the Board of Supervisors, is the first step to installing a larger electronic medical-records system to help bring county jails up to modern standards and, county officials hope, resolve lingering issues with unconstitutional care.
The new medication system could be running in some parts of the jails by early June, and when it is fully operational, it will link health-care providers instantly to patients’ medication records, no matter their location in the jails.
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