The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School

The Digital Symposium on "The Future of Telehealth Regulation" was published on #BillOfHealth, the The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School blog. The symposium was edited by Carmel Shachar, Faculty Director of the Health Law and Policy Clinic at the Harvard Law School Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation. Read all the incredible articles in the symposium here: https://lnkd.in/e-AVCAx7 Thank you to all the authors for their contributions, and thank you to the Petrie-Flom Center team for hosting this symposium! Carmel Shachar Susannah Baruch Tara Sklar Rebecca Canino , MBA Dana Northcraft Natalie Birnbaum Helen Hughes MD, MPH Mark Sulkowski, MD MacDonald Shannon Anne Links Fawaz Al Ammary, MD, PhD

“Given the growing demand by both physicians and patients to provide and receive care irrespective of geographic location, there is a pressing need to offer a pathway that allows for interstate telehealth practice. The Interstate Medical Telemedicine Registration Compact (IMTRC), proposed by Harvard Law School in a consensus statement for telehealth licensure reforms, aims to achieve this by enabling licensed physicians in good standing in one state to register with a centralized, national compact to practice telehealth in all participating IMTRC states.” Rounding up the #BillOfHealth Digital Symposium on #FutureOfTelehealth, Tara Sklar of University of Arizona, James E. Rogers College of Law, argues the need to pursue an interstate medical telemedicine registration compact. Arizona Telemedicine Program The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School Mass General Brigham Johns Hopkins Medicine Read: https://lnkd.in/eqekXYzM

IN 1 WEEK: Join us for our first seminar of the academic year, "Commercialization of Traditional Knowledge and Justice for Communities" on September 13, 2024 at 12:30pm Eastern Time, live on Zoom. Register here: https://lnkd.in/ecTWrb2i Traditional knowledge, often from indigenous communities, has sometimes been patented and commercialized, raising concerns about who benefits from knowledge, patentability, and the co-option of communities’ knowledge or practices, sometimes referred to as “biopiracy”. In May 2024, the World Intellectual Property Organization – WIPO issued new guidelines on genetic resources and traditional knowledge and a new treaty that could be the start of new international trade and #intellectualproperty protections for #traditionalknowledge. In this session, we will explore the #ethics of commercialization and #justice for communities that share their knowledge. Presenters include Nicole Redvers, ND, MPH, DPhilc, Associate Professor, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, Western University (Canada), and Angela R. Riley, JD, Professor of Law, UCLA; Director, Native Nations Law and Policy Center; Justice, Supreme Court of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. Moderated by Daniel Eisenkraft Klein, PhD, Program On Regulation, Therapeutics And Law (PORTAL), Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Support provided by the Oswald DeN. Cammann Fund at Harvard University.

“As doctors treating rare cancers during the pandemic, we were initially skeptical that a tiny camera in a patient’s home could replace a clinic visit but found the benefits monumental for our out-of-state patients seeking an opinion or a continued connection with their treating physician. We envisioned this silver lining of the horrific COVID-19 crisis as the way of medicine in the future.” MacDonald Shannon in this #FutureOfTelehealth Digital Symposium piece, leverages on her experience treating patients during the COVID pandemic to highlight the life-changing benefits of lifting state licensure restrictions for telemedicine. #BillOfHealth Mass General Brigham The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School Carmel Shachar Susannah Baruch https://lnkd.in/e6WnJJ6A

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“To retain and leverage the gains made in transplant care through telemedicine, Congress must act swiftly to enable federal reciprocity of medical licensure for transplant physicians.” In this article, Rebecca Canino , MBA and Anne R. Links of Johns Hopkins Medicine and Fawaz Al Ammary, MD, PhD of UC Irvine share insights on federal licensure reciprocity for doctors caring for transplant patients and donors. The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School #BillOfHealth #DigitalSymposium #FutureOfTelehealth Read: https://lnkd.in/gPaF7nJ4

“Overall, when it comes to delivering care via telehealth, state policies often create roadblocks to accessing care by prohibiting asynchronous care or limiting reimbursement to video-only visits. Unfortunately, legislators and medical boards similarly fail to consider patient preference and clinical indication when it comes to allowing access to telehealth services.” In this article for “The Future of Telehealth Regulation” digital symposium, Dana Northcraft and Natalie Birnbaum of RHITES (Reproductive Health Initiative for Telehealth Equity & Solutions) analyze the equity implications of telehealth policy on medication abortion care service delivery. #BillOfHealth #FutureOfTelehealth Read: https://lnkd.in/eNtdqDnB The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School Mass General Brigham Johns Hopkins Medicine Arizona Telemedicine Program Carmel Shachar Susannah Baruch

Read the introductory piece of the ongoing Bill of Health symposium, "The Future of Telehealth Regulation."

Q&A: Alex Zhavoronkov on Cognitive Enhancement, Anti-Aging, and AI Drug Development, interviewed by William Leonard Pickard is now live on our blog, Bill of Health! Read here: https://lnkd.in/etjanzq2

Executive director Susannah Baruch wrote in STAT: Lessons from Reproductive Health for Psychedelic Medicine.