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11 Okla. J.L. & Tech. 1 (2015)

handle is hein.journals/okjolt11 and id is 1 raw text is: 11 Okla. J.L. & Tech. 80 (2015) www.okjolt.org GOING ONLINE WITH TELEMEDICINE: WHAT BARRIERS EXIST AND HOW MIGHT THEY BE RESOLVED? @ 2015 Pierron Tackes* With the advancement of telecommunications, telemedicine has been pushed to the forefront of medical practices by the federal government as a solution to the United States health care system's historical issues of limited access to health care and spiraling health care delivery costs. Telemedicine is defined by the World Health Organization as the delivery of health care services, where distance is a critical factor, by all health care professionals using information and communication technologies for the exchange of valid information for diagnosis, treatment and prevention of disease and injuries.2 It is a tool being used by a broad spectrum of medical fields, acting as versatile solution for various health disparities facing today's global populations. In practice, telemedicine can take a variety of forms. Most commonly, patients will seek care at a clinic, meeting with a nurse, physicians' assistant, or trained technician, and then that provider will call or engage in a video chat with a licensed physician who considers the information gathered by the provider and who issues an order for care. In 2010, a study of industrialized nations concluded that the U.S. ranked lowest in quality, efficiency, access to care, equity, and * Professor Christina Juris Bennett, J.D., assisted in advising and editing this article. Professor Bennett is a professor at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, College of Public Health and an adjunct professor at the University of Oklahoma College of Law. 1 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Pub. L. No. 111-148, 124 Stat. 119; Sharon Klein & Jee-Young Kim, Telemedicine and Mobile Health Innovations Amid Increasing Regulatory Oversight, WESTLAW J. HEALTH CARE FRAUD, Sept. 24, 2014, 20 No. 3 Westlaw Journal Health Care Fraud 9. 2 WORLD HEALTH ORG., TELEMEDICINE: OPPORTUNITIES AND DEVELOPMENTS IN MEMBER STATES: REPORT ON THE SECOND GLOBAL SURVEY ON EHEALTH 9 (2009), available at http://whqlibdoc.who.int/publications/2010/9789241564144_eng.pdf?ua=1. 1

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