mHealth Intelligence October 18, 2019
Telehealth advocates have long argued that state licensure requirements pose an unnecessary burden to the adoption of connected health services. Now a pair of doctors are arguing that the US should adopt a “mutual recognition” policy that allows providers to practice in any state with just one medical license.
In an article published this week in The American Journal of Managed Care, Pooja Chandrashekar, AB, of Harvard Medical School and Sachin H. Jain, MD, MBA, of the Stanford University School of Medicine and the CareMore Health System argue that state-based medical licensing “poses a significant barrier to the widespread adoption of telemedicine services.” Allowing state medical boards to set the rules, they say, creates “a patchwork of inconsistent state licensure...