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Telemedicine Legal Series—Part 1: Practice Issues

By Michael H. Cohen, JD In this Series:IntroductionPart 1: Practice IssuesPart 2: Licensing IssuesPart 3: e-PrescribingPart 4: Standard of Care IssuesPart 5: HIPAA IssuesPart 6: Mobile Medical Apps Part 7: Unlicensed Practice, Fee-Splitting, and other Legal HazardsConclusion What is the difference between telehealth and telemedicine, and simply delivering educational tools online? Can practitioners offer webinars and other online health informational services without being subject to laws governing both the practice of

Telemedicine Legal Series—Part 2: Licensing Issues

By Michael H. Cohen, JD In this Series: Introduction Part 1: Practice Issues Part 2: Licensing Issues Part 3: e-Prescribing Part 4: Standard of Care Issues Part 5: HIPAA Issues Part 6: Mobile Medical Apps Part 7: Unlicensed Practice, Fee-Splitting, and other Legal Hazards Conclusion Because telehealth and telemedicine often involve practice across state lines, healthcare practitioners must understand the state laws which allow practice in situations where the healthcare provider

7-Part Telemedicine Legal Series—Introduction

By Michael H. Cohen, JD In this Series:IntroductionPart 1: Practice IssuesPart 2: Licensing IssuesPart 3: e-PrescribingPart 4: Standard of Care IssuesPart 5: HIPAA IssuesPart 6: Mobile Medical AppsPart 7: Unlicensed Practice, Fee-Splitting, and other Legal HazardsConclusion Healthcare providers everywhere are looking to expand from a brick-and-mortar practice to one that includes online and mobile patient services. Does this describe you? Broadly speaking, we call online and mobile health ‘telehealth’ or ‘telemedicine’.

Why I Write—and Why You Should, Too

I’ve written more in the last five years than the previous two decades combined. This body of work, for FON, exceeds 150 posts on this blog, scores of articles for other outlets, three e-books, and one very personal memoir. In my previous career—publisher of a consumer magazine—I contributed a whopping two articles over 25 years; and they needed a lot of cleaning up. But that was okay, I didn’t fancy

7 SEO Myths & Their Effect on Your Integrative Health Brand

Search engine optimization (SEO) remains critical to driving traffic to your website to engage prospective patients and clients. However, fast-paced technology may have overtaken you. Your current efforts may be for naught, mistakenly based on outdated practices. Over the last few years much has changed in terms of the algorithms Google uses to reward or penalize sites. If you’re not staying on top of this stuff, you’re likely falling short

Facing Huge Demand, Cleveland Clinic Doubles Its Functional Medicine Center

By Erik Goldman Pictured left to right: Drs. Patrick Hanaway, Mark Hyman and Jeffrey Bland. The Cleveland Clinic’s Center for Functional Medicine (CFM) will be doubling its physical size and patient carecapacities in the coming year, to meet what medical director, Dr. Patrick Hanaway, characterizes as “unbelievable pent up demand for this kind of care.” Since opening in late 2014, CFM practitioners have handled nearly 5,300 total appointments, quickly reaching maximum

Content Guide to Growing Your Integrative Medicine Business

For the last five years I’ve consistently blogged on all aspects of business and brand development for integrative health businesses, clinics, and organizations. This edition points to archival content which I believe will have the most impact on your future success. 1. Assess First, then Strategize & Execute Before you can accurately define the best forward strategy, you must: home in on where you are; align your business and personal

Integrative Healthcare: Value Ready in 2016?

By Taylor Walsh [This article originally appeared on the Altarum Institute Health Policy Forum blog, and is used with permission.] The advances made across the archipelago of integrative health and medicine disciplines in 2015 continue to be significant. If not yet a “movement,” the practices continue their inexorable flow into the established precincts of medicine, wellness, and prevention. And they are likely to find more adoption in 2016. Here are a

Becoming an Integrative Health Thought Leader: Part 7—Conclusion

This is the final installment of a 7-part series.Read the entire series:Part 1: IntroductionPart 2: Personal Branding + PlatformPart 3: Unique PositioningPart 4: Content StrategyPart 5: MediaPart 6: Monitoring + Promoting Your BrandPart 7: Conclusion–Putting it all Together Can you recognize the majority of these integrative health luminaries by their last name only? Abrams, Alschuler, Amen, Barnard, Benson, Berman, Bland, Block, Blumenthal, Borysenko, Bradley, Brogan, Campbell, Cass, Cates, Chappell, Chopra,

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