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.
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.
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.
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 [...]
A FEW YEARS AGO, TELEMEDICINE AND TELEHEALTH BURST ON THE SCENE, IMMEDIATELY CHALLENGING ESTABLISHED LEGAL FRAMEWORKS BUILT AROUND BRICK-AND-MORTAR PRACTICES. The novelty forced healthcare [...]
Are you wanting to move your medical practice or other clinical healthcare practice into more of an coaching service? Worried about telemedicine laws and unlicensed practice rules? Wanting to [...]
Physician health coaching raises telemedicine issues, as it's challenging (but not impossible) for medical doctors (like any professional) to remove the professional hat. Below.
Once you "friend" your refrigerator on Facebook (because it's that smart, and knows about your dietary and nutritional habits than your doctor), healthcare will be unrecognizable even to fans of [...]
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."
With 2015 right around the corner, here are 5 legal and regulatory issues that integrative health practitioners need to know.
The AMA now supports telemedicine, but insists on "safeguards" to help ensure the best patient care. While the AMA Policy on Telemedicine does not focus on legal issues, the telemedicine policy [...]
Just as the silicon "ink" dried on Telemedicine: The Future of Medicine, someone, somewhere, pronounced that there is a future for medicine beyond the future. This was no sweat for me, since I'm [...]
Legalzoom featured Telemedicine: The Future of Health Care, by Los Angeles healthcare and FDA lawyer Michael H. Cohen, as the lead article in its Insight newsletter.
Several important pieces of federal telemedicine legislation, introduced in the past 12-18 months, could affect the way medicine and healthcare are practiced through online, virtual, and mobile means.
Healthcare and FDA lawyer Michael H. Cohen spoke on "Ancient Wisdom & Modern Technology" on ExitCoach Radio. Today, there are many healthcare and wellness related businesses popping up
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” [...]
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