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Privacy, confidentiality, and security issues arise when practicing telehealth or telemedicine just as they do in a brick-and-mortar practice. It’s especially important to understand these issues, since many clinicians advertise on their website that they are “HIPAA compliant.” Does HIPAA Apply Stated in the most basic terms, HIPAA applies to use and disclosure of protected health information (“PHI”), if transactions are billed electronically for third-party reimbursement. Given that there are

How do healthcare practitioners handle standard of care issues when diagnosing and treating from a distance? Standard of Care Identical The key rule is that the standard of care in telemedicine is identical to the standard of care in an in-person office visit. For example, the Virginia Board of Medicine, in its policy statement on telemedicine, states: “These guidelines should not be construed to alter the scope of practice of