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With 2015 right around the corner, here are 5 legal and regulatory issues that integrative health practitioners need to know.

While Medicare reimbursement for telemedicine has garnered a lot of attention, many states also have extensive laws about telehealth reimbursement. For example, California laws provide for [...]

American Telemedicine Association President-Elect Ed Brown, M.D., founder and CEO of the Ontario Telemedicine Network, coined this phrase at the American Telemedicine Association annual meeting.

Telemedicine legal and regulatory issues are complicated by the fact that there are numerous legal definitions of telemedicine.

Telemedicine laws will change if the U.S. Congress enacts the “Healthcare Innovation and Marketplace Technologies Act” (“HIMTA”), a bill which seeks to establish the “Office of Mobile Health” [...]

The California Medical Board has adopted regulations pursuant to California law, allowing healthcare practitioners who are licensed in states outside California, to offer healthcare services in [...]

Now I've heard it all - two dogs in a pet therapy program with hi-tech names. Want to guess? They are called "Twitter" and "Blackberry."

The California Medical Board has announced another physician arrest for regulatory violations involving prescribing.

Telemedicine laws continue to define online health ventures, but meanwhile industry expands robotic telemedicine options.

Entrepreneurs who fail to properly take into account legal and regulatory issues before opening a longevity and anti-aging medical clinic or health education (or telehealth / telemedicine) [...]