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ACEP to Develop Telemedicine Policy for Emergency Medicine

By Barbara K. Tomar | on March 16, 2015 | 1 Comment
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Recent policy statements from the Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB) and the American Medical Association (AMA) highlight the urgent need for ACEP to develop its own policy for the use of telemedicine in emergency medicine. The FSMB’s model guideline for appropriate use of telemedicine includes a statement that physicians using telemedicine technology must first establish a physician-patient relationship and be licensed in the state where the patient is located. The AMA also supports policy that requires a face-to-face telehealth consult and also requires the practitioner to be licensed in the state where the patient is located. The nature of emergency medicine’s focus on unscheduled acute care makes it difficult for physicians to first establish a physician-patient relationship. Policies requiring physicians to be individually licensed in the state where the patient is located may also present significant roadblocks and hamper innovation.

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ACEP Now: Vol 34 – No 03 – March 2015

An ACEP policy now may avert unintended adverse consequences of other organizations’ future policies. It will hopefully help steer local and national stakeholders with rules and guidelines development, as well as eliminating or modifying restrictive covenants, in this rapidly evolving subspecialty. Creating our own telemedicine policy will additionally broaden awareness of telemedicine among the membership and establish principles for use of technology to create new practice opportunities and provide timely services to patients in more locations.


Ms. Tomar is federal affairs director for ACEP.

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Topics: ACEPAmerican College of Emergency PhysiciansEmergency MedicinePractice ManagementPractice TrendsTechnologyTelemedicine

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One Response to “ACEP to Develop Telemedicine Policy for Emergency Medicine”

  1. January 24, 2016

    muhammad Irfan Habib Reply

    I would like to ask about standard operating procedure for telemedicine. I am from Child Life Foundation (NGO) in Pakistan and we are running 2 public sector pediatric Emergency departments Resus Rooms with Telemedicine coverage. Our consultants (qualified fellows in Pediatrics) are consulting on TM and we are improving it through system development, checklist of Medical protocols being followed or not? Another problem we are facing is user acceptability. Kindly Comments.

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