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By December 2023, telehealth accounted for 19% of all abortions in the US. [13] Telehealth accounted for 20% of all abortion care in the first three months of 2024. [14] From October through December 2023, nearly 8,000 people per month in anti-abortion states were getting abortion medication from clinicians operating in states with shield laws ...
KY doctor suspended after authorities investigate if he wrote prescriptions outside U.S. Bill Estep. January 30, 2023 at 12:26 PM. ... by way of telemedicine.
In January 2021, a court injunction blocked a law that required an in-person consultation before an abortion, which allowed doctors licensed to practice in Guam, but resident elsewhere, to prescribe abortion pills to Guam residents via telemedicine; two doctors in Hawaii did so, [56] but an appeals court lifted the injunction in August 2023. [57]
The Center for Telehealth & E-Health Law (CTeL), established in 1995 by a consortium including the Mayo Foundation, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Texas Children's Hospital, and the Mid-West Rural Telemedicine Consortium, is a non-profit organization committed to overcoming legal and regulatory barriers to the utilization of telehealth and related e-health services. [1]
As of July 2024, 107 of Kentucky’s 120 counties are classified as healthcare professionals shortage areas, meaning there are 3,500 or more patients for each provider in the county. “There’s ...
Telehealth is sometimes discussed interchangeably with telemedicine, the latter being more common than the former. The Health Resources and Services Administration distinguishes telehealth from telemedicine in its scope, defining telemedicine only as describing remote clinical services, such as diagnosis and monitoring, while telehealth includes preventative, promotive, and curative care ...
Abortion is illegal in Kentucky, except to save a pregnant woman’s life or to prevent disabling injury. [1] [2] [3] There were laws in Kentucky about abortion by 1900, including ones with therapeutic exceptions. In 1998, the state passed legislation that required clinics to have an abortion clinic license if they wanted to operate.
A Kentucky doctor accused of touching female patients inappropriately has surrendered his license to practice medicine in the state. Dr. James J. Blake accepted an offer to give up his license in ...