Speaking the Same Language: Criminal Justice, Health Care, and Information Technology

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

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

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

Community Oriented Correctional Health Services

Speaking the Same Language:
Criminal Justice, Health Care, and Information Technology

Speaking the Same Language: Criminal Justice, Health Care, and Information Technology

Topic
This handbook contains definitions of terms that cross the domains of criminal justice, health care, and information technology.

Authors
COCHS' Staff

by Dr. Radut.

Speaking the Same Language: Criminal Justice, Health Care, and Information Technology

Catalog

Speaking the Same Language:
Criminal Justice, Health Care, and Information Technology