Medical Boards To Vote Saturday On New Telemedicine Policy

The Federation of State Medical Boards will vote on its first update in nearly a decade to guidance on appropriate use of telemedicine at its Annual Education Conference in New Orleans Saturday, with the update expanding sections on licensure, standards of care and patient privacy. But FSMB has faced pressure from telehealth stakeholders to ease the draft update’s restrictions on audio-only telehealth and other areas. Both the ATA and the Alliance for Connected Care have objected to the draft guidance’s...