Care Technology and Ethical Concerns Complete APA Reference

Fed'n of State Med. (2014, April 26). State Medical Board's Appropriate Regulation of Telemedicine (SMART) Workgroup, Model Policy for the Appropriate Use of Telemedicine Technologies in the Practice of Medicine. Retrieved from www.fsmb.org/pdf/FSMB_Telemedicine_Policy.pdf

Briefly description of the project

Under telemedicine, one gets multiple practice spheres for healthcare lawyers, including reimbursement, payment, abuse and fraud, privileging and credentialing, privacy, peer view, licensing, as well as regulatory compliance. There is need for healthcare proponents have got to comprehend telemedicine as well as its complex framework in order to serve the growing area better. Advancement in technology, expanding healthcare accessibility within the framework of the "Affordable Care Act," emphasizing on affordable quality of care, as well as the propagation of movable medical tools have placed telemedicine at the frontline of healthcare delivery. Since it began over 5 decades ago, range of telemedicine has broadened and deepened and have incorporated both real-time, duplex and simplex communications, consultations, and explanation for patients in not only remote but also metropolitan areas. Such services have been offered with the use of different communication avenues and mobile tools. In view of these limitless opportunities providing telemedicine capabilities, every healthcare provider and entrepreneur...

Before the overdependence on the telemedicine technology for obtaining and transferring patients' confidential health data, providers should make sure that the communication channels are well secured, good implementation of entity- and business associate that are technology-specific as well as other privacy agreements and confidentiality, get the users and the administrators educated on the right use of these telemedicine technologies and help in the understanding of which patient information are being collected and how they are being collected and stored.
When information is shared among different entities, every disclosure must agree with all state and federal privacy and security laws, which includes the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act and the Economic and Clinical Health Act Information Technology.

Licensure

Irrespective of advancements in telemedicine, health care authorities are still liable for all care offered to patients. Under the final rule of CMS, which comes into effect on July 5, 2011, which is a revision of the participation in the federal Medicare Conditions of Participation for health centers, health care bodies may depend on the privileging and credentialing decisions of hospitals in distant locations, or the information made available by other telemedicine entities for the determination of the privileges that accrue health practitioners who administer telemedicine services these distant hospitals so long as some given…