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Introduction to Telebehavioral Health

AIHC

However, they would share information and processes essential to these providers’ licensure and regulations. This compact does not apply to nurse practitioners (NPs) because they are licensed under state boards of nursing and not medicine. Obtaining informed consent with your patient is typically done before the first appointment.

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The Guardians of Professional Knowledge

Bill of Health

Conceptualizing the professions as knowledge communities informs how they are regulated: licensing requirements, unauthorized practice laws, professional malpractice liability, informed consent, fiduciary duties, and the scope of protection for professional advice disseminated between professional and client or patient within the relationship.

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Free Speech versus Public Health: The Role of Social Media (Part One)

Bill of Health

On social media, bad health advice can be disseminated by individuals with no particular health expertise and licensed health professionals alike. professional licensing, informed consent, malpractice liability, and fiduciary duties) while these guardrails run counter to the presumed equality of speakers outside of this relationship.

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The Dr. Oz Paradox

Bill of Health

Senate race, is a famous television personality as well as a licensed physician. Professionals within a professional relationship are subject to a variety of legal constraints, such as informed consent requirements or professional malpractice liability if things go wrong. We might call this the “Dr. Oz paradox.”

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Health Provider News – February 10, 2023

Hall Render

over Claims Practices Where things stand in Central California 1 month after a community hospital’s closure California hospital names Kelly Linden CEO Upcoming California health bills to watch, including a conversation with Rep. million to UMass Memorial Health Care for COVID-19 costs Four Mass.

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Health Provider News

Hall Render

raises $95 million to boost consumer product lawsuits Denver biotech cuts $500K check when it parted ways with its CFO Denver startup raises $2.8M NEW HAMPSHIRE Dartmouth researchers brace for Trumps NIH funding cuts New Hampshire emergency departments near full capacity as flu cases surge Lawmakers introduce Momnibus 2.0

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Suing the Certifiers – A Dangerous Undertaking

Drug & Device Law

Apparently, a fraudulent foreign-trained “doctor” treated the plaintiffs, none of whom claimed malpractice or any physical injury whatsoever. Anyway, this fraudulent “doctor” allegedly “touched them without informed consent” and caused them “emotional distress. 23 in its current form. American Ass’n of Blood Banks , 676 A.2d

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