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Vt. Stat. Ann. tit. 18, § 9361 - Health care providers providing telemedicine or store and forward services

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“Health care providers providing telemedicine or store and forward services under the health law”

A health care provider may treat a patient either in person or electronically. Treatment recommendations made via electronic means, including issuing a prescription, must be held to the same standards of practice as those in traditional provider-patient settings.

A patient receiving teleophthalmology or teledermatology must be informed of the right to receive a consultation with a distant site health care provider. Health care providers involved in telemedicine process must ensure informed consent from the patient. 

 

 


Current as of June 2015