Telemedicine-Legal Side in India
Read with interest article in Digital Medicine where he points out three interesting legal points about practicing telemedicine in India.
1) Only medical practitioners registered in India and are allowed to provide medical consultation, prescriptions and treatment.
2) Prescriptions created via electronic health records which are digitally signed are acceptable.
3) Automated Prescriptions using Algorithms are tenable as long as the Doctor takes full responsibility for the prescription and accepts to be identified as the originator of the prescription.
Full article and more details at Digital Medicine
Telemedicine-Legal Side in India
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Reviewed by Sumer Sethi
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Friday, February 15, 2013
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Sumer Sethi
Unique blend of academic excellence and entrepreneurship, heading leading firms in India- Teleradiology Providers, pioneering company providing teleradiology services and DAMS (Delhi Academy of Medical Sciences) Premier test preparation institute in India for MD/MS/MCI preparation. He has also been an invited faculty member at various conferences, including Teleradiology in IRIA 2008 and 2011, Hospital Build Middle East, Congress of the Brain Tumor Radiology in Neuro-oncology Society. Dr. Sethi is Editor-in-Chief of Internet Journal of Radiology. He has a keen interest in Web 2.0 technologies and in maintaining his famous radiology blog, which has been featured in multiple international journals.
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