Telemedicine & E-Health

Explore compliance tips for operating multistate telemedicine practices, covering licensure, patient consent, and data privacy standards. Insights from Cohen Healthcare Law Group.

Explore essential HIPAA compliance guidelines for telehealth platforms, covering data security, privacy requirements, and best practices for protecting patient information. Insights from Cohen [...]

Explore essential legal tips for telemedicine compliance across state lines, including licensing, patient privacy, and prescribing standards. Insights from Cohen Healthcare Law Group.

As the pandemic hopefully winds down, there will be changes to the ability to use and bill for telehealth services. Our lawyers explain the latest developments.

Telemedicine needs to increase access for seniors, people in remote areas, chronically ill patients, and the poor – all while meeting privacy, security, unauthorized practice of medicine, and [...]

Regulatory compliance and business transactional review of digital health companies and practices including telemedicine, medical software, health hardware, and the IoT.

A case study and FAQs for medical practices who are considering using telemedicine to provide medical services in addition to or in place of in-person consultations.

Many states are easing the restrictions on using telehealth during COVID including easing licensing requirements and in-person visit requirements.

Many states, such as Illinois, Iowa, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, and North Carolina, are easing the restrictions on using telehealth serviced during the COVID pandemic.

Many states, such as Florida, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, and New York are easing the restrictions on using telehealth serviced during the COVID pandemic.

The current status of rules and regulations for telehealth services, mHealth regulations, cross-state licensing, online prescriptions, and informed consent

The current status of rules and regulations for telehealth services including Medicaid and Medicare reimbursement requirement, credentials and privileges, and what services are not considered [...]

The Department of Health and Human Services has created a list of frequently asked questions and answers about using telehealth during the COVID-19 emergency

In response to the public health emergency created by the novel coronavirus, various agencies such as the DHHS and FTC are announcing new compliance rules.

The first step in evaluating how laws impact veterinary medicine is to understand what telemedicine means. Telemedicine during veterinary practice (also known as tele-veterinary practice) can [...]

HOW DO HEALTHCARE PRACTITIONERS HANDLE STANDARD OF CARE ISSUES WHEN DIAGNOSING AND TREATING FROM A DISTANCE?

THE LAW HANDLES TELEMEDICINE PRESCRIPTION DIFFERENTLY THAN DIAGNOSING AND TREATING REMOTELY. HOW CAN YOU BEST COMPLY? PRESCRIBING IS DIFFERENT THAN OTHER TREATMENT

BECAUSE TELEHEALTH AND TELEMEDICINE OFTEN INVOLVE PRACTICE ACROSS STATE LINES, HEALTHCARE PRACTITIONERS MUST UNDERSTAND THE STATE LAWS WHICH ALLOW PRACTICE IN SITUATIONS WHERE THE HEALTHCARE [...]

Healthcare providers who move beyond a brick-and-mortar physical practice often find themselves in a legal gray zone, wondering whether they are compliant, or even what rules might apply. This [...]

As telemedicine has exploded into many forms – tele-dermatology, tele-gerontology, tele-counseling, tele-psychiatry, and other areas of medicine and healthcare – we’re also seeing [...]