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Telemedicine offers a lot of promise for both physicians and patients. For doctors, it offers another source of revenue – new patients. Telemedicine can mean lower expenses as well because [...]

Healthcare reform and declining Medicare reimbursement have thrown physicians for a financial loop; how can medical doctors increase physician income despite healthcare reform?

A physician called our law firm, complaining that the management company had "embezzled" funds from the account for the medical doctor's clinic. What should he do?

No sooner had the ink dried on my post, Telemedicine: The Medicine of the Future, than some blogger pronounced telemedicine the "medicine of the past." There, by a stroke of the pen, someone [...]

What do we call our emerging futurist healthcare-- digital health, e-health, m-health, mobile medicine, tele-health, or old-fashioned "medicine?" FDA is "hip" with its terms, "connected health."

"I provide medical (or acupuncture, chiropractic, osteopathic, massage) services on an hourly basis and get paid a percentage of revenues in return.” Is that fee-splitting?

Wearable health technology is here, creating new legal and regulatory questions about who owns the data, whether HIPAA applies and protects the privacy of your quantifiable self.

Internet prescribing has been the bad boy of telemedicine, lagging behind telemedicine rules for medical practices generally; is this about to change?

Telemedicine laws continue to push forward to keep pace with telehealth market practices. Telehealth legal requirements for prescribing have long been at issue across states. In many cases, [...]

If you think Obamacare is the most important story in regulation of healthcare, you're missing these key trends that will shape the medicine of 2015 and beyond. Remember that technological [...]

Healthcare and FDA lawyer Michael H. Cohen spoke on telemedicine, mobile medical app (M-health) and wearable health tech legal issues at the Los Angeles County Bar Association's Healthcare Law [...]

Florida's Standards for Telemedicine Practice and Standards for Telemedicine Prescribing Practice are now effective. There are four new Florida regulations

Many physicians are dissatisfied with their medical practice and wonder whether they can legally open a side online health and wellness business--be it online health and wellness coaching, [...]

Cleveland Clinic is marketing an online second opinion service for patients who live outside Ohio but want medical input.There are many ways to take advantage of telemedicine laws to provide [...]