mHealth Intelligence July 2, 2020
Massachusetts’ medical board has issued its first-ever telehealth policy, while Pennsylvania lawmakers are poised to review a telehealth bill that replaces the one vetoed by their governor 2 months ago.
Two states with troubled histories of telehealth support are pushing ahead with plans that would improve the connected health landscape.
In Massachusetts – long considered one of the least telehealth-friendly states – the Board of Registration in Medicine recently approved its first permanent policy on telemedicine. The one-paragraph policy states that an in-person visit between a provider and patient is not needed to establish the patient-provider relationship before a telehealth encounter, and specifies that the standard of care for telehealth is the same as that for an in-person visit.
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