Telemedicine: new regulations needed for practitioners

Judah Issa writes in the October 2007 National Review of Medicine that "technology inevitably advances faster than the regulations designed to govern it, and the growing field of telemedicine is no exception." He reports that the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Saskatchewan is now considering offering "easily acquired, reduced-rate telemedicine licences." Despite decades of discussion, issues such as locus of practice and reimbursement remain unresolved both in Canada and the US. Read more.   For curent coverage of projects around the world, see iHealthBeat's telemedicine page.