Recent health-care reform debates highlight the current system’s inability to control health-care costs and ensure access to quality health-care services. Telemedicine1 presents opportunities to provide cost-effective quality care to patients seeking health-care services in rural or underserved areas. Because telemedicine practices often cross state borders, however, legal obstacles have impeded the implementation and growth of telemedicine programs.
Telemedicine’s Role in Health-Care Reform Blocked by State Licensure Barriers
Telemedicine’s Role in Health-Care Reform Blocked by State Licensure Barriers
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Joy E. Sadaly, M.P.H., is a registered patent attorney and associate with Knox, McLaughlin, Gornall & Sennett in Erie, Pennsylvania, who focuses her practice at the intersection of business, health care, and technology. You can follow her on Twitter at: @hospitally.
