telemedicine ethical guidelines

By  Brian Dolan 03:12 pm June 2, 2016
A year ago the American Medical Association's ethics council almost took a vote to adopt a set of guidelines focused on ethical considerations related to the use of online or mobile visits between patients and physicians, but a physician from Texas helped convince the committee to rethink its plans and table the discussion until later that year. Now, 12 months later, the guidelines appear to have...
By  Brian Dolan 08:24 am June 1, 2015
There's been a cluster of important telemedicine news in the past few days: the AMA is developing ethical guidelines for remote visits, a majority of states now have telemedicine parity laws in place, and details about Teladoc's business came to light through an SEC filing related to its hoped-for IPO. This month the American Medical Association's ethics council will begin to craft a set of...