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 [...]
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 [...]
We know telemedicine is expanding, but are telemedicine prescription and distant diagnosis allowed under any given state legislative scheme? Sometimes the art of lawyering is the art of [...]
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.
Are pets like humans under telemedicine laws and regulations? As telehealth laws continue to expand to accommodate telemedicine practices, more and more practitioners are jumping on the [...]
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 [...]
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."
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 [...]
Internet prescribing has been the bad boy of telemedicine, lagging behind telemedicine rules for medical practices generally; is this about to change?
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.
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, [...]
With 2015 right around the corner, here are 5 legal and regulatory issues that integrative health practitioners need to know.
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 [...]
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 [...]
Medicare pays an originating site fee, spurring telemedicine for Medicare recipients, but many facilities do not know how to find the rules or whether they are eligible. Medicare rules are [...]
The American Medical Association (AMA) approved guiding principles to ensure appropriate coverage of and payment for telemedicine services. During its 2014 Annual Meeting, the AMA voted to [...]
Florida's Standards for Telemedicine Practice and Standards for Telemedicine Prescribing Practice are now effective. There are four new Florida regulations
Attorney Michael H. Cohen, President of the Michael H. Cohen Law Group, was interviewed on LA Talk Radio's Legal Help Desk by cyber-lawyer Salar Atrizadeh on the future of health care.
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