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- Title: Why Is Telemedicine a Challenge to the Regulators?(Forum) (Report)
- Author : South African Journal of Bioethics and Law
- Release Date : January 01, 2010
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 259 KB
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The recent paper by Kekana et al. considers the challenges that telemedicine presents to regulatory authorities and states the need for discussion on the subject. (1) Is there a need to regulate telemedicine? Argument for regulation appears to be premised on the belief that telemedicine is something new and by inference unproven. The patient is therefore placed at risk and should be protected by regulation. We are not against regulation, where necessary, but argue that technology has long been used to provide health care over distance, without the need for regulation, and that telemedicine is not new. Information and communication technologies, the radio (2) and telephone (3) have been used in the practice of medicine over distance for over a century. Furthermore, a one-size-fits-all approach to guidelines and regulations fails to appreciate the wide spectrum of practice of telemedicine across disparate disciplines using different technologies.