I’m not a legal expert, but my understanding of what “standard of care” means is that I need to do what any ordinary, prudent psychiatrist would do in my community under similar circumstances. I guess what I’ve been thinking about is the term “prudent.” I’m sure that most psychiatrists in my area aren’t using video [...]
Also tagged face-to-faceThere’s a good article from last Saturday from Voyager Telepsychiatry, “Prescribing without Physical Proximity“ on the issue of prescribing in psychiatry without a face-to-face evaluation. Although of uncertain legality in many states, the article points out that prescribing without a face-to-face evaluation appears to be explicitly legal in: New York, California, Texas, and Maryland, and [...]
Also tagged Maryland Board of Physicians, prescriptions, skypeIt seems to me that the information conveyed on a video and audio link between a patient and me has to be more than the information conveyed on a telephone call. All the information comings through on a telephone call is present on a videocall like Skype provides, and I can’t think of any way [...]
Also tagged disadvantages, face-to-face, skype, webcamAs I mentioned in my post “How I got started in telepsychiatry,” I realized that I didn’t know much about telepsychiatry, so I asked the two questions most doctors ask these days when they find out something new in medicine: Does it work? Is it legal? I wasn’t as concerned about the first question right [...]
Also tagged HIPPA, Maryland Board of Physicians, prescriptions, skype
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