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Legal Implications of Telemedicine

Conceptually telemedicine can effectively solve many challenges that are facing the healthcare industry today. Telemedicine overcomes distance & time barriers between health-care providers, can really solve the problem on unavailability of physicians in underserved areas and reduce the cost of healthcare.  Despite its promise, telemedicine applications have not achieved significant levels of success and are yet come into the mainstream. In both developed and developing countries, telemedicine has yet to be consistently employed in the health care system to deliver routine services, and few pilot projects have been able to sustain themselves once initial seed funding has ended. Legal considerations and lack of clear guidelines are a major obstacle to telemedicine uptake. These include: An absence of a clear national as well as international legal framework to allow health professionals to deliver services in different jurisdictions; ` Overlapping, inconsistent and inadequate