How are such services offered between healthcare organizations?
Another strategy for establishing telemedicine consultation services is for an organization with a concentration of medical specialists to offer their services to other healthcare facilities or organizations that may not have the same access to specialists. In this instance, these services are often viewed as a strategy for building business relationships between organizations that benefit both partners and as a means of attracting patients in need of more complex and sophisticated care to the offering organization when such care is warranted. Those sites that receive such services are labeled either remote sites or “originating sites” in the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) terminology. Often, a number of business agreements and exchanges of information will need to be executed related to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), physician credentialing, patient scheduling, telecommunications connectivity, personnel training and payment for services.
