Hi, I’m Michael H. Cohen. I’m founding attorney at Cohen Healthcare Law Group. We provide legal strategies and solutions to businesses that accelerate health and wellness.

In today’s video, we’ll talk about legal considerations for telemedicine. Lots of practitioners doing telemedicine businesses, mobile apps.

So, telemedicine has an ever-changing legal landscape. As we know, states differ. The rules can be extremely persnickety. So, the first thing you need to know is to comply with state licensing requirements. We recently advised a business on getting licenses in multiple states and really tailoring the language and all of their policies so that they can address multi-state compliance.

Secondly, HIPAA, if you’re not under HIPAA, there’s going to be a state privacy law. It’s good to have a privacy officer or security officer. Have all the documentation, all of the IT lined up so that’s in place so that you survive HIPAA or the state equivalent.

And last, there should be protocols for the virtual consultation, things the practitioner has to do in which order, and again, it all has to be compliant with the laws of the state in which the patient is located as well as the state where the provider is located, and that can be a tricky balance.

We’ve helped lots and lots of telemedicine companies. We’ve been with them really since the dawn of telemedicine, and we’re in it for the long run, and we’d love to work with you.

If you’d like to dive deeper into any of the topics we’ve talked about today, reach out to us, click below, we’d love to talk to you. We look forward to it.