2012 Nebraska Revised Statutes
Chapter 71 - PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
71-8503 - Terms, defined.
For purposes of the Nebraska Telehealth Act:
(1) Department means the Department of Health and Human Services;
(2) Health care practitioner means a Nebraska medicaid-enrolled provider who is licensed, registered, or certified to practice in this state by the department;
(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.
- Laws 1999, LB 559, § 3;
Laws 2007, LB296, § 695.
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