Law and Policy in Telemedicine

Licensure Publications

• Online articles
• Publications

Online articles

• ATA Policy Regarding State Medical Licensure
  Author/editor: not listed
  Date: May 21, 1999
  Position paper from the American Telemedicine Association. Adobe PDF
• Cybermedicine: Licensure and Liability,The Serpents in the Garden
  Author/editor: Barry Straus MD
  Date: Fall 2002
  This paper describes the twin impact of medical licensure and legal liability on the practice of medicine on the internet.
• Growing pains
  Author/editor: Ellen Carr, RN
  Date: October 26, 2001
  From NurseWeek, faced with reimbursement and licensure restrictions, telemedicine struggles to reach a wider audience.
• Licensing physicians for telehealth practice: Issues and policy options
  Author/editor: Pong, R.W. and J. C. Hogenbirk
  Date: 1999
  The article is posted online with permission from the Health Law Review. Health Law Review 8(1): 3-14. Adobe PDF
• Physician Licensure: An Update of Trends
  Author/editor: Janice Robertson
  Date: January 2002
  From the American Medical Association (AMA).
• Practicing telemedicine and Ohio's new telemedicine licensure law
  Author/editor: Stephen M. McCarty
  Date: May, 2001
  From Health Care Commentaries vol 9 no 4, an overview of Ohio's telemedicine licensure law, which allows an out-of-state physician to provide an in-state physician with a teleconsultation. Adobe PDF
• Residents press for national doctor licensure
  Author/editor: Jay Greene
  Date: January 3/10, 2000
  From 2000 AMNews, advances in telemedicine and other forms of medical practice that cross state lines warrant a reconsideration of the AMA's resistance to national licensure, residents conclude.
• State telemedicine licensure
  Author/editor: Brad Short
  Date: November 15, 1999
  From the American College of Radiology. A summary of state telemedicine licensure laws.
• Telemedicine facilitates practicing across state lines
  Author/editor: Ruth SoRelle
  Date: July 2, 1998
  From the Houston Chronicle, experts in the field of telemedicine said the time has come to consider a national medical license -- not only because of the way licensure affects their field, but because it complicates the practice of medicine in general.
• Telemedicine Networks and Physician Licensure
  Author/editor: Andrew Y. Butt, Jonathan K. Roman et al
  Date: February 26, 1996
  The current lack of uniformity in legislation and regulation guiding telemedicine has created roadblocks to practical implementation. In response to these barriers, this paper discusses several potential policy options for overcoming one key telemedicine obstacle--physician licensure.

Publications

• A Third Policy Alternative For Licensure of Interstate Telemedicine Revisited
  Author/editor: Shannon Hartsfield
  Date: 1998
  Their proposal, in short, would require a Congressional resolution to be passed that would allow a physician in any state to practice telemedicine while in consultation with a physician licensed in the patient's state. Adobe PDF
• Draft Model Act to Regulate the Practice of Telemedicine Across State Lines
  This is the text of a memorandum and draft model licensure act proposed by the Federation of State Medical Boards ("FSMB") in August, 1995 and adopted by the FSMB Board in October, 1995.

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