Tag Archives: Healthcare Professionals
Licensure: Practicing Over State Lines with Telehealth
In 2009, a Colorado doctor was found guilty of practicing medicine without a license in California after prescribing an antidepressant via an online pharmacy to a 19-year-old student. The student committed suicide. The doctor was given a nine-month jail sentence. Was his crime any different from the regular practice of many healthcare professionals online today? [...]
Full StorySkype Security: Risks and Attacks
In the mental health world, imagine if the victim of a security attack were a psychiatrist, psychologist or counselor who encouraged a patient or client or will or will or to use a public VoIP system such as Skype and also promised confidentiality to a patient. Within the scope of routine counseling and psychotherapy discussions routinely cover everything from unacceptable feelings to frightening behaviors that involve illegal or immoral standards. The possible damages then, that could result from such private, detailed conversations being leaked online would be unprecedented.
Full StoryOnline Counseling and Professional Licensure?
If you are a licensed healthcare professional wanting to counsel on the Internet, you are subject to the same laws that regulate the practice of telehealth and telemedicine. Until there is a substantial change of legislation, those laws are very clear in most states that the all healthcare practitioners must be licensed in the state of residence of the patient.
Full StorySocial Media? Enough already … I’m a health care provider, not a media person.
How will the recent developments in social media influence you and your work in the next decade? Watch this short video and get a glimpse of what is to come!
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