Regulatory Issues in Telehealth: It's More Than Just About Data Jurisdiction

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Author(s): Alison Hardacre (Healthkit, Australia)and Lachlan Wheeler (Healthkit, Australia)
Copyright: 2021
Pages: 10
Source title: Research Anthology on Telemedicine Efficacy, Adoption, and Impact on Healthcare Delivery
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Information Resources Management Association (USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-8052-3.ch002

Keywords: Knowledge Management and Library Science / Medical Diagnosis and Practice / Medical Information Science Reference / Telemedicine

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Telehealth and digital health more broadly have become two of the fastest growing IT sectors in the world. They have the potential to transform lives everywhere, often before regulation has had the chance to catch up to everyday reality in healthcare. This chapter is grounded in clinical practice occurring at the time of writing and discusses at a high level regulatory issues in telehealth. This chapter argues that complexities regarding regulation over clinical applicability, patient identification, bandwidth, and funding mechanisms, as well as data storage, jurisdiction, and usage should not prevent uptake of telehealth and digital health given the clinical benefits of telehealth in countries such as Australia and internationally.

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