Which disruptive healthcare innovations will push medical frontiers in the next 5 years?

Pundits prognosticate, but how do we measure a future for healthcare when every trend morphs asymptotically?

How to Rock Concierge Medicine Laws by Creating a Concierge Medicine Legal Checklist

Learn how to rock concierge medicine laws by answering some key concierge medicine legal questions.

Telemedicine laws expand as Arkansas legislates to encourage telemedicine use

Arkansas has a enacted statute encouraging telemedicine use. In Arkansas, SB 133, designed to "encourage the use of telemedicine," advises all state agencies to evaluate and amend their policies [...]

Are you handling licensing, corporate practice of medicine, fee-splitting, standard of care, informed consent, HIPAA, liability, advertising, contract, FDA issues in your telemedicine venture?

When you launch any virtual, electronic, online, mobile, or other non-physical telemedicine or telehealth venture, you have to navigate several interlocking, overlapping legal issues, from [...]

Will You Get Rx Drugs from a Shopping Mall Kiosk? Telemedicine and Internet Prescribing:

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

Can you get Medicare reimbursement for telehealth as an originate site?

The Medicare Originating Site Fee is a perk for provision of telemedicine services. State law also may provide its own rules. Let's look below at federal law and then California law.

5 Legal Issues for Integrative Health Practitioners in the new year

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

California Reimbursement for Telehealth

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 [...]

From Telemedicine Everywhere to Telemedicine Anywhere: Legal & Regulatory Issues

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 definitions and informed consent requirements vary by state

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