California | |
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Occupational Therapy | Physical Therapy |
Telehealth/Telemedicine/Telecommunications Definition | |
“Telehealth” means the mode of delivering health care services and public health via information and communication technologies to facilitate the diagnosis, consultation, treatment, education, care management, and self-management of a patient’s health care while the patient is at the originating site and the health care provider is at a distant site. Telehealth facilitates patient self-management and caregiver support for patients and includes synchronous interactions and asynchronous store and forward transfers. Source:Cal. BPC §2290.5 |
“Telehealth” means the mode of delivering health care services and public health via information and communication technologies to facilitate the diagnosis, consultation, treatment, education, care management, and self-management of a patient’s health care while the patient is at the originating site and the health care provider is at a distant site. Telehealth facilitates patient self-management and caregiver support for patients and includes synchronous interactions and asynchronous store and forward transfers. Source:Cal. BPC §2290.5 |
Modality | |
Occupational therapists are permitted to use synchronous and store-and-forward telehealth. Source:Cal. BPC §2290.5 “Synchronous interaction” means a real-time interaction between a patient and a health care provider located at a distant site. “Asynchronous store and forward” means the transmission of a patient’s medical information from an originating site to the health care provider at a distant site without the presence of the patient. Source:Cal. BPC §2290.5 |
Physical therapists are permitted to use synchronous and store-and-forward telehealth. Source:Cal. BPC §2290.5 “Synchronous interaction” means a real-time interaction between a patient and a health care provider located at a distant site. “Asynchronous store and forward” means the transmission of a patient’s medical information from an originating site to the health care provider at a distant site without the presence of the patient. Source:Cal. BPC §2290.5 |
Location- Type of site/Geography | |
“Distant site” means a site where a health care provider who provides health care services is located while providing these services via a telecommunications system. Source:Cal. BPC §2290.5 |
“Distant site” means a site where a health care provider who provides health care services is located while providing these services via a telecommunications system. Source:Cal. BPC §2290.5 |
Type of Service | |
Occupational therapists may provide services consistent with California regulations and that comply with the California Occupational Therapy Practice Act. Source:Cal. Code Regs., tit. 16, §4172 |
No reference found. |
Supervision | |
No reference found. | No reference found. |
Informed Consent | |
An occupational therapist shall inform the patient or client about occupational therapy services via telehealth and obtain verbal or written consent prior to delivering those services. Source:Cal. Code Regs., tit. 16, §4172 |
A physical therapist must inform the patient about the use of telehealth and obtain verbal or written consent from the patient prior to delivering services via telehealth. Source:Cal. BPC §2290.5 |
Patient-Provider-Relationship/In-Person Exam Required | |
No reference found. | No reference found. |
Licensing | |
An occupational therapist must be licensed in California to provide telehealth services to patients in the state. Source:Cal. BPC §2290.5 |
A physical therapist must be licensed in California to provide telehealth services to patients in the state. Source:Cal. BPC §2290.5 |
Other | |
An occupational therapist or occupational therapy assistant providing therapy via telehealth must:
Source:Cal. Code Regs., tit. 16, §4172 |
No reference found. |