‘An Epic Fail:’ Hawaii Inmate Medical Records System Hasn’t Worked Right For Months….A top prison official said computer updates weren’t done for the system, and health workers at Hawaii’s jails and prisons lost access to thousands of records.
The electronic health care record-keeping system for thousands of Hawaii prison and jail inmates has been on the fritz since June, temporarily leaving correctional workers without access to tens of thousands of medical records including information needed to provide proper care to state prisoners.
The failure of the electronic medical records system was described as “an absolute crisis” by Christin Johnson, oversight coordinator for the Hawaii Correctional System Oversight Commission.
Johnson told the commission earlier this month the system failed on June 14, and “this is causing the medical staff to rely on a paper-and-pen based system, and there’s no real indication of when the EMR might be back up and running.”
