2014 New York Laws
PBH - Public Health
Article 1 - SHORT TITLE AND DEFINITIONS: GENERAL PROVISIONS
Title 1 - (1 - 2) SHORT TITLE AND DEFINITIONS
2 - Definitions.

  2.  Definitions. 1. Whenever used in this chapter, unless otherwise
  expressly stated or unless the context  or  subject  matter  requires  a
  different  meaning,  the  following  terms  shall  have  the  respective
  meanings hereinafter set forth or indicated:
(a) Department. The term "department" means department  of  health  of
  the state of New York.
(b) Commissioner. The term "commissioner" means commissioner of health
  of the state of New York.
(c)  Health district. The term "health district" means a county health
  district,  part-county  health  district,   city,   town,   village   or
  consolidated health district having a separate board of health.
(d)  County health district. The term "county health district" means a
  health district comprising the entire  county  heretofore  or  hereafter
  established.
(e)   Part-county   health  district.  The  term  "part-county  health
  district" means all that part of a county outside of a  city  or  cities
  having  a  population  of fifty thousand or more heretofore or hereafter
  established as a health district.
(f) County department  of  health.  The  term  "county  department  of
  health" means that division of the county government having jurisdiction
  over the public health of a county or part-county health district.
(g)  County health commissioner. The term "county health commissioner"
  means the executive officer of a county department of health.
(h) Local board of health. The term "local board of health" means  the
  board  of  health  of  a  county,  part-county,  city,  village, town or
  consolidated health district.
(i) Municipality. The term "municipality" means a city, village,  town
  or consolidated health district.
(j)  Local  health  officer. The term "local health officer" means the
  health officer of a  county,  part-county,  city,  village,  town  or  a
  consolidated health district.
(k) Sanitary code. The term "sanitary code" means sanitary code of the
  state of New York.
(l)  Communicable  disease.  The  term  "communicable  disease"  means
  infectious, contagious or communicable disease.
(m) State institution in the department. The term  "state  institution
  in  the  department"  means any state hospital or institution subject to
  the jurisdiction, supervision and control of  the  state  department  of
  health, and such other state hospitals and institutions as may hereafter
  be  made  subject  to  the  jurisdiction, supervision and control of the
  state department of health.
(n) Sexually transmissible disease. The term  "sexually  transmissible
  disease"  shall  mean  a  disease  that  appears on the list of diseases
  promulgated by the commissioner pursuant to section twenty-three hundred
  eleven of this chapter.
* (o) Distant site. The term "distant site" means a site  at  which  a
  health  care provider is located while providing health care services by
  means of telemedicine  or  telehealth;  unless  the  term  is  otherwise
  defined with respect to the provision in which it is used.
* NB Effective and Repealed January 1, 2016
* (p)  Health  care  provider. The term "health care provider" means a
  person licensed pursuant to article one hundred thirty-one, one  hundred
  thirty-one-B,  one  hundred  thirty-three,  one hundred thirty-nine, one
  hundred forty, one  hundred  forty-one,  one  hundred  forty-three,  one
  hundred  forty-four,  one hundred fifty-three, one hundred fifty-four or
  one hundred fifty-nine of the education law, acting within  his  or  her
  scope  of  practice, including any lawful practice entity of such health
  care practitioners; a hospital as defined  in  article  twenty-eight  of

  this chapter; home care services agency as defined in article thirty-six
  of  this  chapter;  or  a  hospice  as  defined in article forty of this
  chapter; unless the term is otherwise defined by law with respect to the
  provision in which it is used.
* NB Effective and Repealed January 1, 2016
* (q)  Originating  site.  The term "originating site" means a site at
  which a patient is located at the time health care services are provided
  to him or her by means of telemedicine or telehealth, unless the term is
  otherwise defined with respect to the provision in  which  it  is  used.
  Provided,  however, notwithstanding any other provision of law, insurers
  and providers  may  agree  to  alternative  siting  arrangements  deemed
  appropriated by the parties.
* NB Effective and Repealed January 1, 2016
* (r)  Telehealth.  The term "telehealth" means delivering health care
  services  by  means  of  information  and  communications   technologies
  consisting  of  telephones,  remote  patient monitoring devices or other
  electronic   means   which   facilitate   the   assessment,   diagnosis,
  consultation,  treatment, education, care management and self management
  of a patient's health care while such patient is at the originating site
  and the health care provider is  at  a  distant  site;  consistent  with
  applicable  federal  law  and  regulations; unless the term is otherwise
  defined by law with respect to the provision in which it is used.
* NB Effective and Repealed January 1, 2016
* (s) Telemedicine. The term  "telemedicine"  means  the  delivery  of
  clinical  health  care services by means of real time two-way electronic
  audio visual communications, including the application of  secure  video
  conferencing  or  store  and  forward  technology  to provide or support
  healthcare  delivery,  which  facilitate  the   assessment,   diagnosis,
  consultation,  treatment, education, care management and self management
  of a patient's health care while such patient is at the originating site
  and the health care provider is  at  a  distant  site;  consistent  with
  applicable  federal  law  and  regulations; unless the term is otherwise
  defined by law with respect to the provision in which it is used.
* NB Effective and Repealed January 1, 2016
2. Whenever the term "state board of health" occurs or  any  reference
  is  made thereto, in any law, it shall be deemed to mean or refer to the
  department as described in this article.
3. Whenever the term "public health council" or "state hospital review
  and planning council" occurs, or any reference is made thereto,  in  any
  law, it shall be deemed to mean or refer to the public health and health
  planning council as described in article two of this chapter.