In fact, the healthcare of inmates is better than some who are not incarcerated, which led one man in North Carolina to rob a bank with a motive of going to prison in order to get the medicaltreatment he needed.
Just as the crew of an aircraft or ship can use such monitors to connect to remote medical centres, in order to help make diagnosis, obtain treatment advice and determine whether to divert for help or not, a commander in the field would be better informed about the need to evacuate a casualty—which might mean calling off an operation.