A 43-year - old mother of three comes to a physician's office with suspected breast cancer. Because...

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A 43-year - old mother of three comes to a physician's office with suspected breast cancer. Because sheislocated in a rural area with limited tertiary care, telemedicine is used to manage her diagnosis and treatment.
Discuss the legal and ethical issues that may arise with the care of this patient during diagnosis, ongoing treatment and follow-up.
Assume that the best consultants for this type of ccancer in a different state. How will you decide whom the film should go to?
Be sure to address the issues such as legal and ethical issues associated with the use of telemedicine. These issues include privacy, confidentiality, licensure requirement and electronic signature use.
Thus, you should incorporate into your final report
a discussion of what legal issues might arise as a result of implementing the telemedicine system
you have designed (teleradiology):
How will you address these issues?
Can the problems be solved locally, or will new/revised state or federal policy be necessary?
What limitations are imposed on your system because of existing(nonexisting) laws

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· A 43-year - old mother of three comes to a physician's office with suspected breast cancer. Because she is located in a rural area with limited tertiary care, telemedicine is used to manage her treatment.
· Discuss the legal and ethical issues that may arise with the care of this patient during diagnosis, ongoing treatment and follow-up. The issues include privacy, confidentiality, licensure requirement and electronic signature use. And also legal issues might arise as a result of implementing the telemedicine system (Tele-radiology):
· Can the problems be solved locally, or will new/revised state or federal policy be necessary?
· What limitations are imposed on your system because of existing (non-existing) laws
· Assume that the best consultants for this type of cancer are in a different state. How will you decide whom the film should go to?
Solution
Rural segment in US face many challenges when it comes to diagnosing and treatment of cancer such as geographical barriers, low accessibility to specialists, less medical awareness, unhealthy health practices, etc. To overcome these challenges, Telemedicine has emerged and in recent trends it is playing a phenomenal role in health domain. Telemedicine uses Information and communication technology (ICT) to increase the accessibility for healthcare services and to remove geographical barriers.
According to WHO (2010) report, “Teleradiology currently has the highest rate of established service provision globally (33%)”. The legal issues such as patient’s privacy, confidentiality, licensure requirement are the real barriers for implementation of telemedicine system.
Legal and Ethical considerations
Detection of breast abnormalities can be diagnosed on Teleradiology, which transmit the radiologic images electronically from one geographical location to another for diagnosis and treatment. USA state legislation mainly focuses on responsibility and accountability issues towards telemedicine.

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