Telemedicine & E-Health

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 [...]