These doctors make video calls | The Columbus Dispatch

Donald Harding sat in an exam room inside the Pickaway Correctional Institution last month with a nurse at his side.

The 59-year-old inmate waited as Dr. Charles Hardebeck went through some paperwork on the Ohio State University campus. Hardebeck, a cardiologist, looked up and began speaking to Harding through a videoconferencing system.

The nurse told Hardebeck that Harding's lungs were clear and his heart rate was normal. Hardebeck asked his patient about his medications and any side effects, just as he would during any face-to-face appointment...