Arkansas Signs Telehealth Bill
An Arkansas state senator defended her telehealth legislation​. Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R) signed the bill into law Friday, a Hutchinson spokesman said. Teladoc said the new law’s requirement of a video interaction for a patient’s first remote visit may…
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be difficult for people living in remote areas with slow internet connections (see 1702170053). Sponsoring Sen. Cecile Bledsoe (R) told us she doesn’t see a problem. “That is a false argument because most everyone has a smart phone or has access to one through family or friends,” Bledsoe emailed. Patients may use a phone for all subsequent visits, but a video call for the first meeting is “good medicine,” she said. “Many things can be discerned by a visual evaluation and are important, especially when the Physician is seeing the patient for the first time.”