N.J. Admin. Code § 13:35-10.27

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 11, June 3, 2024
Section 13:35-10.27 - Telemedicine or telehealth: definitions

The following words and terms, when used in N.J.A.C. 13:35-10.26 and 10.28 through 10.33 and this section, shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.

"Asynchronous store-and-forward" means the acquisition and transmission of images, diagnostics, data, and medical information either to or from an originating site or to or from the licensed athletic trainer at a distant site, which allows for the athlete to be evaluated without being physically present.

"Cross-coverage service" means a licensed athletic trainer who engages in a remote medical evaluation of an athlete, without in-person contact, at the request of another licensed athletic trainer who has established a proper licensed athletic trainer-athlete relationship with the athlete.

"Distant site" means a site at which a licensed athletic trainer is located while providing health care services by means of telemedicine or telehealth.

"On-call" means a licensed athletic trainer is available, where necessary, to physically attend to the urgent and follow-up needs of an athlete for whom the licensed athletic trainer has temporarily assumed responsibility, as designated by the athlete's primary licensed athletic trainer or other health care provider of record.

"Originating site" means a site at which an athlete is located at the time that health care services are provided to the athlete by means of telemedicine or telehealth.

"Telehealth" means the use of information and communications technologies, including telephones, remote athlete monitoring devices, or other electronic means, to support clinical health care, provider consultation, athlete and professional health-related education, public health, health administration, and other services in accordance with the provisions of P.L. 2017, c. 117 (N.J.S.A. 45:1-61et seq.).

"Telemedicine" means the delivery of a health care service using electronic communications, information technology, or other electronic or technological means to bridge the gap between a licensed athletic trainer who is located at a distant site and an athlete who is located at an originating site, either with or without the assistance of an intervening licensed athletic trainer, and in accordance with the provisions of P.L. 2017, c. 117 (N.J.S.A. 45:1-61et seq.). "Telemedicine" does not include the use, in isolation, of audio-only telephone conversation, electronic mail, instant messaging, phone text, or facsimile transmission.

N.J. Admin. Code § 13:35-10.27

Adopted by 52 N.J.R. 474(a), effective 3/2/2020