Telemedicine: Emerging Legal Issues

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Telemedicine: Emerging Legal Issues, By: Alan S. Goldberg and Jocelyn F. Gordon, published by the American Health Lawyers Association, Washington, DC, explores the potential risks and complex legal and business issues associated with "telemedicine"—healthcare services provided to patients from remote locations using high technology. The Internet, satellite communications and other technical advances now allow healthcare providers to offer services to patients anywhere in the world.

This unique analysis of the current and likely future state of the law addresses many of the critical legal issues that surround telemedicine and enables the reader to:

Explore the requirements of patient consent when patient and provider are not "face to face."
Get strategies to protect patient privacy and confidentiality.
Understand licensing issues when crossing state lines.
Monitor emerging regulatory challenges that affect telemedicine.

With a comprehensive analysis, informative exhibits and more than thirty pages of tables listing existing federal and state law and pending legislation, Telemedicine: Emerging Legal Issues provides information and timely guidance for those embracing telemedicine while maintaining vigilence with respect to legal issues. And periodic updates will be posted at this site in order to provide current information of interest.

ABBREVIATED TABLE OF CONTENTS:

I. Introduction

II. Licensing and Telemedicine

III. Reimbursement and Telemedicine

IV. Liability and Telemedicine

V. Informed Consent and Telemedicine

VI. Privacy, Confidentiality and Telemedicine

VII. FDA Regulation of Telemedicine

VIII. FCC Funding for Telemedicine

IX. Conclusion

For updates to charts of bills and laws, go to Telemedicine Book Update

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Last revised: 6/16/98