Managing the Risks of Practicing Telemedicine
Staying in State
Some Internet-based telehealth involves patients logging onto a
secure website and, after providing the relevant information, being
connected online with a doctor whom the patient does not know, but who
practices in the necessary specialty. If you’re the doctor who has
volunteered to consult with individuals at one of these sites, said
Harlow, you need to make sure you’re only providing services to
patients in the state where you’re licensed. “It goes by
where the patient is, not by where the doctor is,” he said.
“A company like American Well would presumably only connect a
Massachusetts patient with a Massachusetts doctor, and some states have
limited licensure for telemedicine – sort of a separate category
of licensure – but most states do not.” Any doctor who is
not careful about this issue risks an action by the Board of
Registration in Medicine for the unlicensed practice of medicine, Harlow
added.
Next: Ensuring
the Reliability of the Technology
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Resources
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Teletransmission of ECG Waveform: An
ingenious low priced technique. Indian Heart Journal (34:(6),
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