Center for Telehealth and e-Health Law (CTeL)
If you are not aware of it (well, it wasn’t on my radar screen, which needs some cleaning, but there it is), there is an organization called the Center for Telehealth and e-Health Law (CTeL) that was created in 2006 with a grant from the US Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). Their focus is exactly that–regulatory, privacy and government facing issues. Their home page has a nifty news feed for telemedicine and telehealth, if you don’t. One recent event they sponsored was their monthly ‘Washington Live! Brown Bag Telehealth Seminar’ (Wikipedia: Brown Bag Seminar), topic: Is there a role for Telehealth and Remote Monitoring? [A bit of a headscratcher, as we have been presuming that for a while.] Nonetheless, the summary is dense reading. Telehealth was discussed as…