Second 'telehealth' bill filed for 2015 session

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Lawmakers will continue to pursue telemedicine this year in a bill submitted last week by Republican Rep. Travis Cummings of Orange Park, through a measure described as “telehealth.”

Cummings filed HB 545 just one week after SB 478, a similar bill from Senate Health Policy Chair Aaron Bean, a Fernandina Beach Republican, and Democratic Senate Minority Leader Arthenia Joyner of Tampa.

A press conference from Cummings, Bean, Joyner and other legislators on telemedicine will be held on Tuesday.

Last year, House and Senate members supported telemedicine – the use of the Internet and telecommunications to provide remote services – but the two chambers failed to agree on regulatory issues.

The same thing appears in the two new bills now facing the legislature, in that they seem to have substantial differences that need to be reconciled during the session beginning March 3.

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