Health Care & Hospital Law,
Administrative/Regulatory
Jul. 23, 2018
Telemedicine can help to combat opioid epidemic
Remote prescribing is a viable telemedicine tool to combat the opioid epidemic but faces legal barriers in federal and state law.
Andrea L. Frey
Associate
Hooper Lundy & Bookman, P.C.
Email: afrey@health-law.com
Andrea is based in the firm's San Francisco office, where she assists health care providers with a broad range of business, general corporate and regulatory matters.
Jeremy D. Sherer
Associate
Hooper, Lundy & Bookman , P.C.
Jeremy is based in the firm's Boston office. He focuses his practice on the transactional and regulatory components of health care law, with a particular emphasis on health care IT issues, including telemedicine.
As the opioid epidemic devastates communities across California and the United States, telemedicine has emerged as a viable strategy to combat this chilling trend. By increasing the availability of care to medical services, telemedicine offers access to treatment for patients in geographically isolated regions and medically underserved areas where the epidemic has struck the hardest. Remote prescribing enables telemedicine by providing a platform from which qualified ...
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