Telemedicine & E-Health

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.

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” [...]