The American Medical Association’s House of Delegates is meeting next week to decide if it will adopt guidelines on “the ethical practice of telemedicine,” reports Forbes.
The meeting seeks to establish the AMA’s lobbying agenda, and as telemedicine proliferates, the association is working to determine how to advise physicians to approach telemedicine.
“Although physicians fundamental ethical responsibilities do not change, the continuum of possible patient-physician interactions in telehealth/telemedicine give rise to differing levels of accountability for physicians,” reads the AMA’s Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs report?, according to Forbes.
The telehealth ethical guidelines have come up in two meetings in the past year, and were tabled both times, according to the report.
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