2006 Nebraska Revised Statutes - § 71-8503 — Terms, defined.

Section 71-8503
Terms, defined.

For purposes of the Nebraska Telehealth Act:

(1) Department means the Department of Health and Human Services Finance and Support;

(2) Health care practitioner means a Nebraska medicaid-enrolled provider who is licensed, registered, or certified to practice in this state by the Department of Health and Human Services Regulation and Licensure;

(3) Telehealth means the use of telecommunications technology by a health care practitioner to deliver health care services within his or her scope of practice at a site other than the site where the patient is located; and

(4) Telehealth consultation means any contact between a patient and a health care practitioner relating to the health care diagnosis or treatment of such patient through telehealth but does not include a telephone conversation, electronic mail message, or facsimile transmission between a health care practitioner and a patient or a consultation between two health care practitioners.

Source:

Laws 1999, LB 559, § 3

~Reissue Revised Statutes of Nebraska